Mary sat beside me with the edge of the fire in her eyesShe said, Absolutely mental howeverything around you will change You think you’re sitting stillbut you’re actually flying She had attempted to sweepher flame damaged hairinto a style that resembled normal It hadn’t worked The hair puffedlike a deranged haloSo scary it made me […]
Life is blemished and golden moonglow, a lichen borne of love, the fruiting body you did not become. Or did you? We couldn’t keep you hidden in the tussocks of panic forever, but when you kicked, fifth instar to a shimmering green, you were still our little secret. You quickened into life and through your […]
Fear is a short film by DISSIMILAR, shot on location in The Black Isle, on Scotland’s north east coast.
I am moving in the dead of night, packing things, turning out lights. My fingers tie knots like fish nets. I want to be in my mother’s house but she is all the way over the other side of the world. Boxes; I can’t see out of the back window. Leila is a bundle in […]
No one
Looks forward to being old and alone,
The carer with a spoon,
Visitor gone
Certain women. And some young boys.
/ Women with some uncertainties
/ but something they knew about
/ that made them need to say something.
/ Two of…
The night is darkening round me,
/ The wild winds coldly blow;
/ But a tyrant spell has bound me,
/ And I cannot, cannot go.
/
/ The…
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The…
When grey shapes slip the shadows of the morning
/ My small birds sit in silence in the eaves
/ But daylight brings indifferent…
As time draws near
/ the end of our days
/ and the plates fall
/
/ away from our knees,
/ let us not be…
It wakes when I wake, walks
/ when I walk, turns back when I
/ turn back, beating me to the door.
/
/ It spoils my…
When despair for the world grows in me
/ and I wake in the night at the least sound
/ in fear of what…
