My naked body writhes in honey-dew sheets of sweat Despising its thought-existence and craving the softness of another body, Yet all that...

Quiet exhale. A breath. A sigh. The satisfaction of a job well done. Something dealt with, the chapter closed. A new line begun.

“When I was a child, if I had a problem I could not solve, I would not eat for three days until I had done it. You … You are not like...

May it ever be without company, Without impenetrable company, That so insults my individuality. Damp gravel under an open window, Sun...

To another day. Another tide that has buffeted and bashed and broken this base yet we stay resilient. Another lashing by Scylla and all...

Unwavering fecklessness, it seems becomes her- to the eye. Yet inside you’ll find peaches and cinnamon that appoints her sickeningly...

I went into the wine trade immediately after completing my degree in Biology at Sussex in 1979. Academically I had not been a model...

There is a weird mole on my side. A dot with another dot inside, there is something more to this than my other ones. One that seems to...

In response to Katy Harrison's excellent and thought-provoking article https://www.theelenchus.org/post/thoughts-on-the-portrayal-of-hist...

This post is largely speculative, and seeks to engage a sharing of ideas in terms of how we perceive and engage with historical figures....

Dear Dad, Having studied philosophy and undergone the dismal perils of the bleak English literary canon at university, I have - with...

On my third day in a row of a 9-hour shift at the checkouts, I felt like a robot. It left me wondering, would a robot be being doing this...

What is a foundation? Large, bare, and unremarkable: it is a promise. What is here now may look uninteresting and devoid of any detail,...

Dear anyone who may need this, A hollowness lingers like a huge lead ball in your stomach, molten and burning and yet entirely cold....