While there is still time

5 O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting                fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , h...

Dawn comes later and later now,   and I, who only a month ago could sit with coffee every morning   watching the light walk down the hil...

What He Said What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how Did you and I meet ever? But in lo...

Given And I carried to that emptiness between us, the birds that had been calling out all night. I carried an old ...

Daybreak On the tidal mud, just before sunset, dozens of starfish were creeping. It was as though the mud were a sky and enormous, imperf...

"....individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and view the world fr...

Wine Tasting I think I detect cracked leather. I'm pretty sure I smell the cherries from a Shirley Temple my father bought me in ...

Machines Dearest, note how these two are alike; This harpsichord pavane by Purcell And the racer's twelve-speed bike. The machine...

Fifty-Fifty You can have the grackle whistling blackly from the feeder as it tosses seed, if I can have the red-tailed hawk perched imp...

"Prior to his arrival Jean conducted a workshop on his marvellous poem ‘Wintering’ (below). I loved its internal music straight away, ...

So the unwanting soul Sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. Mystery of all mysteries The door to the h...

"You know how hard I tried to make a bridge, to make a tunnel between the human and divine in both of us between spirit and animal. th...

Independence Day. Independence. Which so many are sceptical about. While so many are giving up their lives for what we take for granted. Re...

Spike Milligan: Goon, Loon, Manic Depressive Comic Genius "His comic influences were Jacques Tati, WC Fields ("the voice of ins...

The Other Life i.m. Emily Riall I want to wake up in a house where the ghosts have recently departed, persuaded to leave by prayer i...