As we walked side by side, our fingertips brushed and a spark flew. From that moment on our relationship was no longer static.
Moments
Nest
Where Abe saw a nest, Abi saw nets. She sawed at the tangles, her hope like blunt scissors. One day, finally, her heart flew.
Tea
She swirled the end of the tea around in the bowl and tipped it away. One long leaf remained, stuck camouflage green on the porcelain.
“Life will be what you make it” she said. This time I believed her.
Electric tea
Kraków. Snow. The Christmas market lights twinkled. A warming glass or two of electric tea. The lights spun and disappeared.
Lead
The 80kg bully prepared to kick sand again. This time, instead of kneeling, the thin boy showed him fifteen grams of lead.
Shell (2)
I took the unexploded ordnance home with me from the pebbly beach. She was beautiful. She was my shell, my belle.
Shell
I can hear the sea.
Don’t listen too long.
I can hear the sea calling.
Don’t listen.
I can hear the sea calling me home.
Don’t.
Please don’t.
Sweet (2)
I whisper a wish to you to dream of honey. And if you dream, and if you dream of honey, remember the sweetness when you awake, and think of me.
Sweet
One by one, he swallowed the jewels
like sweeties. He smiled toothily until the largest caught in his throat. Greed is not good.
Tent
In the tent the writer of ‘The Domino Effect’ posed by stacks of his book. A step back and he was a victim of his own success.
