Cat thinkies — Ursula is feeling her age
Ursula the cat has an age-related epiphany: she is a third of the way through her life. I must support her through this identity crisis.
Continue readingCategory: Almost old
Not yet please—a poem about dying
Avoid the void. Void the void. Implore the void. Embrace, revere, explore the void.
Continue reading
Perhaps—a poem about death and the noosphere
Perhaps when I die
my me, my who
my one, my I
distils in minds
and memories
of those who stay behind.
Ageing: it’s a thing—poem
Ageing was once a thing of the body / a thing of the mind / and a personal thing of the heart
but while we were sleeping our way through life/ ageing became a public issue/ a cause, a career, a competition…
Continue reading
Flying to a funeral—a poem
We will be happy for she was happy/ and strong and funny and old./ A good person who died old/after a single stroke.
Continue reading