I undress to the waist, armpits free  of deodorant at the form’s request. Guiding me to the machine, she places  my left breast on a...

for Claes   Fifteen years ago, you used to joke about that shirt you’d had forever,   black washed out to faded grey,   big bold checks,...

I was hidden under a dense blanket Harris Tweed hessian, maybe centre stage and feuding with my own suffering I was tightly bound I was...

Old-man spindly-legged spiders occupy the house stringing cobwebbed bunting from corner to corner of every room. Leaves shrivel and drop...

Try Not To Forget my radiator  hissed and it sputtered  and it released a garbled coppery  smell that reminded me of my dead grandad's...

I pulled a gun on my record player, started making demands. “Make me feel everything that I want to feel, and none of the things that I...

the spaces in between time, pockets of atoms, shadows of seconds that fill up the half pauses. That catch in the throat, the motes of...

A quirky and evocative poem from Aaron Lembo.

The seams unpicks itself in a slow, methodical unravelling. We take it in turns to tug at loose threads. We have this hook you see: the...

After “the eclipse” by Craig Kucia A snake made of constellations coils around a dark hole. This witness to a dying star gives a gentle...

My mother and I like to sit and play the I-ching, She content with her life, we ask about the two men in mine. One of them is second...

In In the tree, through the bush, I see prey, let's go whoosh. In the garden, through the hedge, there's a worm, let's go squirm. Benji B...

January: We were never on thin ice fishing; it was Indiana winter. We wore the gloom and cool on our faces, lake pale blue and hard, the...

Grey hairs flow like spilt diesel in the rain Weaving through the flames of autumn Thinning out like the dying leaves Clogging up the...

On Friday the sun filled a yellow balloon you were holding till it glowed like a beacon. I wanted to take a photo so you walked ahead and...

Tread-like rain pierces a gold soil. Cells triple twitching and jagged. A violent spitting and splitting of sap all done in silence, in...

I stand by Dinas Bran Castle see the horizon fez onto this earth. Jackdaws blow each other out of a field. A kestrel full-stops. I look...

As a child, Summer held me like a spell. Pollen suspended above my head; Dust from another world, frozen in time. Above, there were...

You let me go as high and as far as fast as I liked Each apple I reached was a triumph. We shook the tree so hard and laughed as we...

I longed to see this man Shanks' pony, Brush its mane, feel its shy oaty breath Ruffle my fingertips. Be helped up, foot In hand, leg...