He searched and found me twice. As the stranger said to me, with a name like yours, your easy to find. I was named by a ghost.
little red ridding hood
When there is something growing in your body not a baby, you haven’t told anyone because its the middle of a global pandemic. Others might need medical treatment more urgently and you’re too scared to go near a hospital. You’ve ignored it getting bigger for twelve months. When you lay on your back you can see it like a tennis ball sticking out. It’s probably nothing but you don’t know that yet. Feeling too faint to put the clothes on the clothes horse you have to lay down before you fall. You lay and ponder the Sisphus’s boulder that is the home keeping of motherhood.
clothes horse
Back in 2005 when bird flu hit the news in the UK I pondered briefly, the birds feelings as they rapidly became the new favorite leper of the tabloids.
bird flu
Some people can’t wait for a flower to open to see its beauty. They have to force it open exposing its insides for their own gratification, egos so out of control they can’t see they will never enjoy the beauty which they destroy in the process of their unnatural discovery.
fallen flowers
As the gap between rich and poor becomes an increasingly tense subject this short video highlights the disconnect. As Hollywood stars need the poor to buy tickets and tune in to their advertising . Many born into wealthy families have no concept of what poverty is. They have to do something to protect themselves from the multitude of desperate poor people trying to find a way to make their life more bearable.
necessary wall
Two old soldiers sit and talk about the times during world war 2. They have a shared trauma that can only be understood by those that were involved. They sit on Godrevy beach no one needs to point out the remnants of war that scatter the coast line to these two. The holiday makers are blissfully unaware of the terrors that still mark these shores. The days have faded behind these men and what appears to be good for the country now may not reflect the opinions of their younger selves. As Elon Musk publicly carries out a Nazi Salute how do these men respond to trump and all his supporters in America and the UK? Have they forgotten?