the power of imagination
— A poem captures the immersive act of writing as ink consumes the page, until external sounds and the command to 'Look up' break the spell.
— A whimsical recipe poem for making soup from bay water, moon snail shells, urchin spikes, and other seaside ingredients, stirred into a whirlpool under August lightning.
— A meditation on weightlessness and tranquility builds through philosophical comparisons until the speaker climbs a mountain to grasp the sun and fall.
— A young writer explores the complexity of emotions, from broken courage to unnamed feelings, concluding that our thoughts and experiences belong to us forever.
— A surreal journey through a dreamscape where light whispers, fireflies form paths, and a door handle transforms into an octopus, culminating in 'blue fear.'
— A speaker watches seagulls and imagines waves from a window in Southwold, with fragmented repetitions creating a dreamlike meditation on coastal morning.
— A bored 12-year-old builds a time machine from trash, travels to ancient Alexandria with her talking cat, and must convince Julius Caesar not to burn the library to save human...
— A meditation on poetry's elusive nature through metaphors of spiderwebs in sunlight, chaos on paper, and the universe writing, ending with deliberate uncertainty.
— Lonely Athena, tired of being mocked by the other gods, invents humans to worship her wisdom, then cleverly trades each god's modifications for respect and power.
— A woman falls through collapsing stairs, her body fragmenting into surreal objects—banjo, Picasso painting, brooms—while she prays not to be seen or painted.