Wrestling Emily Dickinson

 YouTuber Steven Fearon interviewed me on his channel, INSIDELEFT, about my recent poem Tell Me, Physician , and much more besides. I really...

Maybe it wasn't the coldest day of the year, but the wind made it  feel that way: wind so loud he had to shout, the man sat by the Monum...

Traffic Light Banana I tend to use this blog mainly for writing essays, which means I tend to neglect the actual 'log' part of the p...

From the Rolling Stone Special Issue 'Remember, Remember: One Year On from the Day America Changed':  'I know it seems like suc...

Bad doctors make good torturers. Not just because of training in anatomy: because long training and high station flatter vanity, and breed r...

  The thing about 'Insomnia', the song, by Faithless, right, is that the late (and I mean genuinely late, not whatever Trump means w...

When we encounter a friend long unseen, it is rather like the feeling we have when, being driven in a car, we mount a steep, short bridge: a...