I had stayed in this comfortable Bed & Breakfast for the last three nights But as I had concluded my business in the town it was now time to leave Although I felt tired having spent a restless night in my tiny room I dreamt (or thought I dreamt) that the owners daughter Who reminded […]

At last we were together on our cabin bed You were wearing a vest and nothing else But I am still fully dressed as I can hear A distant storm raging against our shared God is good so very good as he has given us Everything that we love and admire He even gave you […]

We are slowly becoming part of the landscape I said as we sat under the pale blue gazebo But you did not answer me -it was as if you were transfixed But the ever changing shades of the desert light We should leave quite soon Esther Collencinni As the deserts can freeze at night It […]

We slept under the stars that night In our warm sleeping bags But our faces were damp As we looked at the stars Under the dark desert sky For we were meeting Our unknown cousins For the first time   Diary Entry If all the grains of sand came together Then they would form a […]

We should have been in bed resting But we were out on the neon razz And strolling the streets of the meadows Instead of being in bed dreaming As we were driving to Death Valley next day To discover ourselves in the high bar heat I was wearing a white cotton shirt And scruffy jeans […]

The Three Mary’s watched as the pterodactyls flew at will In the lead grey skies above the Ramsgate Retail Park But these creatures are extinct  (Mary B) The asteroid that gave us life was responsible for their demise (Mary W) Ramsgate (Mary S) Retail Park (Mary B) Sucks (Mary W) Mary D said nothing as […]

Recently I visited London In defiance of the flimsy laws But I was caught and given a task In lieu of a heavy fine I was told to count All the purple stations In the city and elsewhere When it was safe to do so I was further instructed to travel Only on peak time […]

The creature was almost dead When we found him on a rock I filmed him as I supposed him still But his eye flickered and he raised his head He then changed into the most beautiful Of all of God’s wonderful flowers The Green and Grey Ash Blue Hyacinth

I bumped into a couple of friends at a football match recently And noticed that they were holding hands Which was odd as both were happily married with children In the hours that followed I tried to study my own limitations But I still found the idea of male homosexuality distasteful and corrupt I then […]

That was my alias which was one of many As for many years I was a spy Who was so far underground That I rarely surfaced for air I lived in hostile cities Watching and listening Arranging collections and drops In all I was an ant who although In the plain sight remained invisible As […]