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WAR CRY
This girl, this English nurse, flings her flaming hair over the bath and sings. We laugh – we, who were born to be Dovedale mothers and...
THE U-BOAT AND THE WHALE
Undercurrent echoes of living flesh sing through half-sunken subs: sounds that, leaving Lincolnshire and heading South, bounce around The...
THE CHOSEN CLOTHES
Manchester 2000 Ben’s Flat In the slanted grey light of a Manchester evening, you lay out your clothes, ready for leaving: boxer shorts,...
NAKED
A rented room: dark enough for shadows to stand against the warmth of orange light. Us two: up so early that night is like a hot breath...
PORCELAIN
Mixed by an alchemist, with all the prized magic of exotic origins: eggshells and the shells of umbilical fish. Their own origins – his...
THE CLASSIC NUDE AND NOIR
She sits and stares and I do too. Outside, the billowed silk is cold: the cubic art with Scottish lines, drawn hard. But these – the...
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