I suppose you think she’s just a silly girl with stupid ideas,
but I remember her in those days.
They talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff,
well, she had that alright.
It’s just that no-one dared to jump into her fire;
they would have been consumed.
We all knew a ‘Susan’ at school, the type of [...]
The shadows, the trees, the wide lawns – it was all as it should be, but it was too still, too heavy, waiting for the day when the dead would return, coming through rain, coming through the wind, seeking out the angles and corners they knew, the faces they could name, the bodies that were [...]
I’ve decided to start the new year by once again celebrating the art of George Shaw, the most significant discovery for me in 2008 if not the past ten years. The view outside right now is like a George Shaw painting – dark winter branches against a flat grey sky, fallen leaves on the ground, [...]
