Imagining yourself giving advice to your own teenage self is a thing more strange than we like to think. It is one of those moments when we see ourself as ‘double’, having two characters in one moment that interact with each other, sometimes in a contest of power and / or authority. There is because … More “And these few precepts in thy memory /Look thou character”. This is not how to be ‘yourself’ – whatever that means!

‘No two corpses are the same’, the surgeon,In forensic and appropriate blankTone, as blank as this verse reversing onItself. ‘They are alike only when sankIn sordid life’.                            Yet only as a corpseIs a body named a ‘like’, a word likeThat ‘lych’ that names the gated part of t’porchOn which dead bodies rest, or that old … More If I would like to ban a word, it would be a word like ‘like’, like!

They say that I am hauntedBut let’s see if that’s the truth.People think their dreams come downFrom their hard-tiled attic roof,Which is what they call their brainsNot up from the dark cellarsWhere hide the things they dare not See: that can’t be flushed down drains.Truth is, some men have bad dreams,Ride night-mares through woods at … More Do houses dream of being home and not their posesion by evil?