splashed-pink sky

look away for a moment

scarves of cotton wool on blue

look away for a moment

black sheet full of holes

in teeming IKEA, I realise with relief how many things I don't need

thank you Alex

a single exquisite expensive marron glace (my very first)

Noel Coward's Private Lives

The jokes about the stillborn sister and hitting a woman like a gong are out of time.

she says tenderhooks not tenterhooks, and the difference makes me love her

communion

fifty minutes of saying nothing goes as quickly as five

upside-down Fatty's tummyfur tufts echo the shaggy cushion

At Hall Place tea room

The three of us get into a knot, and then we get into another.

on the radio they play 'happy when it rains' by the jesus and mary chain and outside it rains and rains and rains

go?

week

the

did

where

Sweet malt on the air, long drafts of malt, sweet malt on the air, a comfort.

His front teeth are gone. He's a young man but the street cakes him. He has a 12 year old son in Ireland. He shows me his finger. He had an accident. They put iodine on it. He's worried it's going septic. He just needs £8.80.

We are all damaged. We sit in a circle. We show each other the dark parts, and the light.

logburner, post-fire

through the clearing in the blackened glass, yesterday's pale grey ash

slow journey home

the dark rain presses in

simple pleasures

return to tea, to a card from a friend, to the shivering autumn leaves

what's scariest of all is what's inside us

I tease 43 burrs from fatty's fur before he chirrups a warning

Silver kneads the duvet into softness, softness, curls up in a ball.

fireworks day

sprays of light like raindrops falling on water from underneath

heart shaped shortbread for caroline

The man on the radio says, '...this has bled into the public consciousness'. He enunciates the word 'bled' so clearly that I flinch involuntarily.

oh butter caramel, let me count the ways...

how to eat

put it on a plate. sit down. light a candle. concentrate.

10 pm

so much light from the full moon's face

the wind today is horses running in the wind