seasonal remnants – munsterkerk abbey, roermond – evening: four haiku
round the munsterkerk the Christmas market’s dark, stands and stalls shuttered up: * seasonal crowds withdrawn in space of singular silence no one hears nor follows * [...]
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Michael Douglas: A Clerihew
To help celebrate Michael Douglas’ discovery, announced in yesterday’s Guardian, that throat cancer is caused – and cured – by cunnilingus, we offer [...]
“History claimed them…”
Lives shaped by large, historical events can end up trapped in them forever. This was certainly true in the past, but I wonder whether it still applies in the present, when [...]
Valentine’s Day Oracle – The Shining Ones
Phædriades – the shining ones – a pair of cliffs enclosing the sacred site of Delphi, centre of the Hellenic world, and place of Apollo’s temple where [...]
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