LUPUS IN FLIGHT

It is the winter solstice today. The shortest day of the year and also the special meeting after 800 years between Jupiter and Saturn. An as...

A sad love curls around me like a cat with no name, I knit on into the darkness.  When the wind howls without and my feet stay within, I bow...

There is a beat before an Indian person manifests on screen. In the American superhero drama ‘Heroes', just before Mohinder Suresh, play...

Lee Krasner, 1981, nocturnal widow of Jackson Pollock Is it insomnia if you don’t even try? If you can hear the pigeons crooning, wakefully,...

It would have been Clive James’s eighty-first birthday today.  Lots of people have October birthdays; friends of mine, a goddaughter of mine...

In my last poem, I mentioned the sun going down. I spoke of the dark. It was an intimation. A week later I developed a migraine which led my...

It’s this part that gets me - the sun going down. Evening’s descent. The dark, really, going into the dark,  unwillingly. Tea going cold, an...

It rained all day today. It has been raining most days this week. No walks for Dad. There’s a giant puddle in the pavement outside our house...

I was watching the Korean drama, Romance is a Bonus Book , when, in the penultimate episode, our heroine Kang Dan-i, is horrified to find pl...

While I was in hospital, my friend Victoria sent me photographs of her garden. There are gardens in my hospital, one in particular that I cl...