Prose is the ideal form for an idea that needs expressing or an emotion or event that needs processing and honouring simply for itself. Prose is pensive and probing, teasing and touching, challenging and provoking.
With prose, what you are doing is composing a picture – something that is, metaphorically speaking, small enough to hang on the wall. Like a shot of wheatgrass (or vodka or coffee, if you prefer), prose wakes you up, pulling you up short of where you were heading, demanding that you stop and take note of what surrounds you, whilst simultaneously grounding you for a while.I turn to prose when a poem is eluding me or when I want to translate and better understand a dream, it’s allegorical nature allowing me to unveil what would otherwise remain concealed.
Below are links to samples of my most recent work, many of them semi-autobiographical. Written over a period of three years, they detail my experiences, adventures, feelings and thoughts. If you would like to read more, send me an email.
• The Torso that carried the skeleton
• Behind the mirror
• Three Sisters
• Nice Girls Swallow, Sensible Girls Spit
• The Prince who Favoured the Beast
• Yesterday’s Desire. Tomorrow’s Heartache
• Invisible Clouds
• Cat’s Feet
• The Frog Prince and the Fairy Princess
• Empty cups
• Footprints more durable than memory
• A dysfunctional legume
• No man’s land
• Dinosaurs that have shrunk
• Snowmen in winter
• Tiny pleasures, snatched
• Borrowed digits
• The moon underwater
• Contemplating Jesus
• Concrete flecks, tarmac lumps
• A drowned rat
• Sharing space with a stranger
• It’s my party
• The clouds float north while I travel south
• The underside of seldom swept things
• Yellow rose petals
• The things that stare at me
• There’s no place like home
• Green and gold
• Fear and Self-loathing
• An indeterminate or undefined place or state
• Bleeding from new places
• Rhyme or reason
• Collateral damage
• Like my dog, I like to hide inside blankets…
• Cold, dead and dark
• Muddied Water
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