Nov 11, 20226 min readCarry your ill humour to the moors Part of my places project. CW: eating disorders, eating disorder behaviours and thoughts, mention of sick Life repeats itself in various...
Oct 19, 20222 min readA poem for my ma (that I'll never let her read)I know what you mean, though you don’t quite say it. You thought, by now, that you’d be living with the more ordinary metaphors, but...
Aug 4, 20222 min readHoliday Romance (take two)CW: eating disorders The cliffs are two arms that wrap the waves up in a safe embrace and the evenings are the calmest shade of blue. You...
Aug 4, 20221 min readMay there be no sadness of farewell It’s kind of funny how the place I feel the greatest semblance of hope for the future is at the top of a cliff, no cordons to keep me...
Jul 20, 20221 min readThe Other Home It's not real, but when it comes down to it, neither am I. Just a ghost, rattling round inside a tin can body, just a collection of ideas...
Jul 20, 20223 min readBreathing Space (The beginning of a possible new poetry project, that may or may not happen, about places and me) (CW: Eating disorders, inpatient...
Jul 15, 20221 min readAll the other sweet things They look in her face and call her sweet, bright names: she’s the angel girl; she’s Galatea refined. Her dresses are the rich red of...
Apr 13, 20222 min readIt must be hard work to give therapy to the dead Let’s say I was born and then I died but I got stuck – an unalive thing caught up in flesh. Let’s say I’m a ghost and no one knows it yet...
Mar 23, 20224 min readIntimacies: a short story While I can hardly claim to have known her, it feels like an inaccuracy to say that I didn’t. What I mean is, for about six months, we...
Mar 23, 20222 min readI’ll make the best of broken egg shells(TW: Suicide, self-harm) So what if I do die? What if I finally blot myself out of existence – cut the albatross from around the necks of...
Mar 23, 20222 min readI put all my eggs in one basket and now the basket’s got a hole in itSo what if I don’t die? What if five years into the future, it’s a warmer day in January and my heart is still beating and I’m breathing...