Pencil shavings

Pencil shavings

Please listen here if you prefer to hear this read out loud Sometimes we have to make do with what we have available to us. Sometimes being limited forces out of us an innate guttural creativity that just isn’t possible when we have 1. So much to choose from and 2....

Raining indoors

Raining indoors

Please listen here if you prefer to hear this read out loud I remember reading about a teenager with autism who hid under a table during an actual storm at school and found it so hard to come out because he could not fathom how something so real and fierce had...

Punctuation marks

Punctuation marks

Please listen here if you would prefer to hear this read out loud Let’s imagine life as a book, chapter by chapter, line by line, sometimes we can’t wait to turn the page, sometimes we dread to. We can’t skip ahead like in a book though and read the last pages to see...

Unravelled

Unravelled

Please listen here if you would prefer to hear this read out loud Let me say for starters that if you can sew or knit then I salute you. I have tried and failed to master these particular life skills. You will understand this image more than me. Life has unravelled...

Yet unseen

Yet unseen

Please listen here if you prefer to hear this read out loud There are moments in life when it is all so murky and indistinct and smudged that we wonder if any of it matters anyway. We find ourselves scrabbling around to minimise the impact of a pandemic. As we live...

Different kinds of light

Different kinds of light

Please listen here if you would prefer to hear these words read out loud. It is ironic that it is now Spring and there is more natural light and we find ourselves in situations such as self isolation and social distancing and a rising death toll that can make the...

What the poets can teach us

What the poets can teach us

Please listen here if you would prefer to hear this read out loud As you read this and you take your next breath you may notice again the palpable disbelief and shock in the air. Society globally has not faced human mortality with such constant force for many years....