love – Page 2 – The Flaneur

Sharp

Your sharpness is deadly When your anger takes over and you say things you ‘don’t mean’ Your cheeks flare up and you leap out your seat My eyes well up and tears fall as I […]

A Muse in Obtuse Hues

A Muse in Obtuse Hues You are a stock character, boy with matching shoes You are a free spirit with nothing to lose But turn around: on your back you’ll find a bruise Your […]

A pencil portrait of the author by the artist Emmi Smid

My Summer of Love by Margery Higglebottom

His name was Arvel Edwin Tranter but, for reasons that were never clear, we called him Berny. In the summer of 1957 his garden parties were the place to be for anyone wishing to stand […]