Uvalde

The space is small, like a crack in a concrete wall, this space between good and evil, the thin wavering line of human will. Good to some, not to others. Silver and hard, grey as wood ash, the grey line, the grey area. Depends which side of the line you’re on. We are safe from … Continue reading Uvalde

Ukraine

Amber grain, weathered faces lined with the long sleep. They could not love you. No hope left inside. An empty hall of strangers. No meeting of eyes. They are shredded and ragged. Torn and fatal. They are like thorny fields of pot shards stacked to the end of the sea, slow and deep, sunken, like … Continue reading Ukraine

Raven of War

How many days will it be until we flee with our own children to escape the fools of fire. The day after yesterday could see demons dropping on the tarmac as the Raven caws out ‘fools of fantasy’. As we reflect upon that yesterday, making excuses for the savagery the Raven caws from a broken … Continue reading Raven of War