Happy Birthday to Federico Garcia Lorca Wearing black mantillas,she thinks the world is tinyand the heart immense. Wearing black mantillas. She thinks that tender sighsand cries disappearinto currents of wind. …
Recipe, Alarm and the Weight of Leaked Time
For Christmas I received a big fat volume of Norman MacCaig’s poems. I asked especially for this as I had been recently haunted (this happens once in a while) by …
Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen
I always put a line or two of Leonard Cohen’s up here for his birthday (2007, 2006), but this year I offer a twist. Joni Mitchell wrote Rainy Night House …
small steps :: giant leaps
My son got to bed late this evening.For the past few days he has been, once again, obsessed with the moon. (“Moon” being his first spoken word, along with “chocolate” …
Fucked from birth Part 5
Another one in an occasional series (four, three, two & one (scroll down to “baby girl had human bite marks” and, the very first archive entry “Fucked from birth”)) and …
Only a master can punish you and make you grateful
I recently came across this sweet footage of the induction of Leonard Cohen into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame. Cohen recites the first couple of lines from Tower of Song …