- “we look with our round eyes at rooms
ignore what builds in the corners ”
- “Post-it™ yellow is the navy-blue of yellows ”
- “I’ve had back pain on and off for years;
it eases with a lie-down or a bit of yoga. ”
- “I’ve had depression on and off for years;
it eases with a bike ride or a bit of the Bunnymen. ”
- “Anyway, this is about Bruce Chatwin. ”
- “One man dies in Leipzig of Ebola, which has
killed around four thousand in this outbreak.
Four thousand ones, ”
- “a flag for discrimination, dyed pink. ”
- “Albert Speer knew more
when he commissioned all those series of Jim’ll Fix it ”
- “I got back on my bike and on with my life. ”
- “He couldn’t sit still, couldn’t commit, ”
- “Although he did commit to writing. ”
- “Hard road, soft body: blood. ”
- “I went to London and got on with my life. ”
- “You tease and shock; you surprised me with words
I took the wrong way. ”
- “reaching instead for lined white and final words. ”
- “Finite, I put something plain on paper ”
- “A motif of dividing lines, radiating
from a centre, sure of its power. ”
- “like tidemarks on the keys
of an old computer in a grubby internet cubicle ”
- “other people zoom in,
frame their clean square gaze to trim ”
- “The year ahead tailed off,
ended at a flat earth’s edge. ”
- “I should care. I like the margins. ”
- “And now I write the tunes. ”
- “‘Sing if you’re glad we’ve swung to the right’. ”
- “And a day of sun was all it took ”
- “fixed with staples, bound to a twin page
further back or forward in your life. ”
more poetic fragments, with pictures...