Charlotte’s birthday poem, 2012
The Art of Physics It’s too easy to become alone,Trapped in your own thoughts,To believe you are the only staticPoint in this restless universe,To carry the burden of the whole,A… Continue Reading
Of trains and taxis
On Monday, I got up at 5:30, left the house at quarter to seven, caught the 07:23 train to Stowmarket, then the 08:15 from Stowmarket to Peterborough, and from there… Continue Reading
On Mortality
There is a time in every man’s life when he has to reflect on what has been and gone and what will be, on how he may have wasted his… Continue Reading
Choices
These have been hectic, mad weeks, these last few months, and it’s difficult to relate, in a few words and impressions, how my life has been changed by what I’ve… Continue Reading
Raging against the machine of useless education
I know people think I’m an intellectual snob. I know they think I use words that are too big for my mouth or even for the pages I write on…. Continue Reading
Still Life – Travel
I unpick my layers of skin,An old wound healing,Softened rawness,The scab gone, some moreOf my DNA scatteredOver the cutting room floorsOf my travelling. It doesn’t hurt,This unravelling of what I… Continue Reading
Great Scott – aka Titanic Scott
It’s almost four weeks now since Dead Men was released into the wild. And it’s not been an easy four weeks. The gig at the NHM in London was brilliant,… Continue Reading
Knowing – Kara’s 13th birthday poem
You fly out into the silence Of your paint, of your words, Up to the stars and the vacuum, Down into the centre of your world, Cut yourself adrift from… Continue Reading
the closer, 1912
flies in my gutfire like a leechin my facethe wind marching against mein this dark half yearand everywhere is north nothing left ofsummer and winterno betweena scattering of worldup thereoutside… Continue Reading
Scott’s Last Diary Entry, Undated
One of our watches was wrong,Changed by the weather’s ferocious gnawAt the metal we trusted.Did we forget to wind themAnd lose track of our last days,Count too many hours? I… Continue Reading