I've already bragged in the bragging forum, but let me brag again. My poem 'For Perdida' which appeared in an earlier form on Writelink, won the 2010 Slingink Poetry Competition.  Okay, okay, the prize money was cancelled due to too few entries,... Read more

For twenty years you kept the office garden,trimmed lawns, pruned roses, splashed colour palettesin russet, sweat-clung shirt, faded and frayed.This was your life. You never missed a day.   Last month an autumn storm brought down a tree;we'll ... Read more

We were lost when we met;I, returning from a strollthrough tessellated eucalyptus;you, snuggled on saffron-sprinkled pavement,fast asleep.   Or perhaps we were found, though I named you Perdida. I stroked you, woke you, promised I'd be back.J... Read more