You might have noticed my poem Haiku Commentaries, which brings together Haiku written to celebrate visual images that particularly caught my imagination.

I thought I could share all these images with you, so here they are:


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The Remains Of The Day and The Death Of Alan Turing are now both complete.

In fact the Churchill sequence, The Remains Of The Day is now a performance project. By the end of October I hope that poem will have been performed and videoed for posting on YouTube. I will be working with a talented group of Y Tuesday regulars to bring this about.

Words Create Situations continues, but not for a lot longer.

And another project, running in the background since the beginning of the year, has taken off. I was ruminating about the Russo- Japanese War of 1905. My first thought was to describe in a series of tankas. But as we know, history is full of back-stories, often convoluted and intricate ones. So I gave the whole idea up.

Then I thought that history could be transmuted into the form of saga. So I begun my Manga In Words. I hope you can stay with as it develops. Star Wars for a single planet!!

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After months of prolific work, my pace of writing has finally slowed. True, there is still Words Create Situations, which still has some way to go, my Churchill sequence remains stubbornly incomplete (still one piece left), and there should probably be more to come on the Wright Brothers.

Pieces about the death of Alan Turing and the disgrace of Francis Bacon have also stalled for the moment. Both of these poems in their different ways memorialise persecutions of famous gay men, though in Bacon’s case there is a happy ending. Had his political career imploded so disastrously he would probably not have completed the philosophical work for which he is now famous. Enough work to finish off, you might think.

Taken together could each of these frustrations be symptoms of an approaching season of skin shedding?

I’m beginning to think more about writing prose, hoping, even to post a re-worked piece by the end of the week. Then, who knows, 100 themes in flash prose?

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a) Tell you why I befriended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite deviation of yours.
g) In return, you must post this in your journal.

Do it!

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First,thanks to who generously provided my subscription.

Her spontaneous compositions are so good that she has a severe case of Lord Byron's cuffs. Byron was able to dash of good verse so effortlessly he claimed that he scribbled it on the cuffs of his dress shirts.

But we all have to edit in the end!!!!

Next, two young deviants who have illustrated poems for me, and


Because I asked her nicely, she said, created Dark Arts to complete my poem, Ordering.

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