Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…
A group of swans is a wedge when they're in flight, likely because of the shape a group of swans takes in…
I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…
Mustn't Grumble We mustn’t grumble We have wireless and cable And there’s food in the shops. Beyoncé had a birthday and…
There's a drainage ditch runs alongside the rail trail where we often take our morning stroll. It runs with water…
Amazing how hard it sometimes can be to find things on the intertubes. There was a poem I remembered from…
Two quite different wartime farewells at Charing Cross Station: The first is from Vera Brittain on the eve of 1915:…
Soodle - it means means to walk in a slow or leisurely manner; to stroll, saunter. With so many alternatives…
In 1975 the poet Allen Ginsberg was in hospital. At a later poetry reading he explained the causes in an…