Poet, Black Bough Poetry nominee - ‘Best of the Net’ and Pushcart Prize. Scottish Centre for Geopolitics, Broken Spine Arts, Sidhe Press, So bored by Trump.
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ALT Government Advice Louise Machen Put the kettle on if you can afford it. Put the world to rights in an unlit room. Talk it out between a candle or two. After you’ve showered in the rain, layer up in clothes ingrained with damp and despair. Say that little prayer. Put the kettle on but invest in a new one, one that boils quicker: economically efficient. Think of the pennies you’ll save ignore the pounds you owe: this, my friend, is Britain – a brew will solve it all. Forget the cost of living, you’ll be lucky to survive but put the kettle on and keep those tea bags piling high.
ALT Sudden Wrong Words and a home is a house, a job is unemployed, a family is forcefully divided into separate locked rooms in a sentence. They are wrong words that have been here decades as correct names, lauded. Words cannot be spoken without consequence. Hard, fought for words now disappear from dictionaries, from histories. Freedom is accepted words.
ALT A recent photograph of golden rays of sun, now tinted prism rainbow, with my latest poem placed upon it: The fictions we tell ourselves Run deep - still waters disguised Underneath even the barest of skin Trust is a love beneath all of that Honesty is the courage within
