Glitter on her eyes, sparkles on her coat, a mobile phone container studded with sequins around her neck, Sylve stepped out of Natasha's car at East Lodge. Was it two years? My old school prefect. The drama - for there was always a drama - was the death of her younger brother, Luke, the one… Continue reading Sylve
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Sofka
Long after we knew each other in London, while traveling through Bulgaria, I went to her namesake city. I sent her an email from a camping sports centre, and got a one liner back. It made me realise how I missed her. Isralie Ashkenazi, PhD Doctor in child psychology, bright combative, she refused to discuss… Continue reading Sofka
Shad
Controlled Ruination
Controlled RuinationDownload Controlled Ruination 2012, Orfordness with Mendham Poets, Tamar and Rochelle Nesting birds and unexploded bombs: Beware,Take care, to keep to the tracks. Do notDeviate. We are the National Trust in us To keep, preserve this heritage of oursWhich in this case is all to do with LAND This Ness or Nose, this vegetative spit… Continue reading Controlled Ruination
Launch of Fishy Tales
Talk given by Rachel Kellett, representing the Book group who co-ordinated the project Here I amOne of my fantasies or dreams when I was at New Hall, was to read the reading at the mass on a Sunday, in front of the whole school. It was an impossible dream for one with a stammer. So… Continue reading Launch of Fishy Tales
Kevin on Christopher
I've just found these notes, (2026) as I go through papers, knowing now that they will go with me, and wanting to leave a tidy plate for whoever takes over my space. As i typed them up - torn from a note book, i piece a few jigsaw pieces together. Perhaps Christopher had asked me… Continue reading Kevin on Christopher
Sarnath reflections 2002
Last evening in Sarnath. That magical time just before sunset I walk out into the wheat fields around the school. The augmenting oppressive heat of the day is waning, as if breathing out from the cracking earth through the hair of sun dried wheat. Village India. They are scything, mostly women of course, using forms… Continue reading Sarnath reflections 2002
1998 UK Safari
UK Safari - 1998 Edited August 1999 Preamble23 April -3 July 1998Blank sheet of paper. Feel a definite reluctance to write again, after the loss of words with lost computer in India. I’d plenty of time to think about those lost words, on the 36 hour train journey to Goa, and then I’d thought good… Continue reading 1998 UK Safari