Be here with the cup In the soapy water Be here with the toaster As it cooks Smelling the aroma of crusty bread Browning Be here with the sights and sounds of nothing more important arising Than dust motes drifting across the room As writers we are trained to panic It is ingrained this thought […]
Somebody asked me once Do you ever get worried you’re just going to run out of things to write about (on the blog) And to be honest I’d never thought about it But here’s the thing Do you ever run out of things to think about? To talk about? Well how can you run out […]
We are born alone And we die alone At our happiest and most triumphant We are alone And when we at our most forlorn When we mourn We are alone too These moments are when we are closest To the heart of who we really are Either becoming Or going Arriving Departing Heartfelt and excruciating […]
I’m a starter, a very enthusiastic starter but I’m not always a completer. This characteristic increasingly frustrates me the older I grow and the less I seemingly grow UP. Grown UPs complete things. In front of me sits a pile of notebooks of various sizes and descriptions. Scattered through my house are more (I know) […]
A note of explanation. I posted this piece the other day but then sent it back to drafts for reconsideration. So if you are seeing this twice – my apologies. Ray’s comments (which you will see below) sent me into a ferment of thinking about whether a writers work was indeed autobiographical or not […]
REBLOG: Well this is exciting. My first spoken-word-poetry collaboration! I came across Kate Duff’s poems through the blogosphere a while ago and they really resonated with me. I approached her about doing… Source: Spoken Word collaboration A note from me (athousandbitsofpaper.com) I enjoyed working with Claire so much on this – you can find Claire’s […]
You sit across from me There are two here and another one just there But they don’t hear you ask “what is it you eat?” with that half bored expression of not really being interested in your own question And I blink Start to think Come – with – me No I don’t want to […]
