Stories

 

For people of every culture and age, stories are important: creating them, telling them, reading them, writing them; true stories, made-up stories, legends, myths. The stories I tell are mainly in longer form, in prose, but recently I’ve started wanting to use the shorter, more concise form of poetry – because often the stories that grab my attention can be told in under a hundred words.

My recent writings

Swimming without you

I'm alive! I'm alive! slicing the turquoise counting lengths following lines snatching breaths   Plunging and turning splashes and swirls bubbles of light chlorine stinging heart singing I'm alive! I'm alive!   Aeons ago at Dancing Ledge moonlight stripping...

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