Creation Myth –Un-visited I too would run, like the tiger, from the dank cave in my half-hearted quest to become (more) human. So the bear stayed; ate only garlic for one hundred days, his reward, being turned into a woman, giving birth to a child who would later become King of the Land of Ever…

I came across a quotation in ‘Re-visiting University teaching’ by Diana Laurillard : ‘We cannot experience molecules in the same way that we experience dogs’, and I asked some of my Facebook friends to respond with a poem. These are the responses so far..more welcome   Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura I • Substance is eternal. …

  Pre-flight drinks   East Midlands Airport:the bar where I’m not sitting.   I’m on a black vinyl sofa in front of a booth, http://www.discovereastmidlands.com.   Sometimes the bottles at the back of the bar glow purple under fuschia and violet spots.   Enticing elixirs. Next moment they’re coming up in blues.   It would…

Moniack Mohr Facing all directions, the croft where writers sink into their souls. Souls, yes. Even though moorland’s hard and gorse prickles and that wind spares nothing, almost tearing the grass out by its roots.

View from a hotel window   Saturday morning, 9am.  I’m looking into the arms, tails and legs of a monkey-puzzle tree and a bird I don’t know seems to be telling me Enjoy all this now! A woman in a red fleece walks her beagle along Ness Walk. The river, flowing eastwards, also has somewhere…