There was no official announcement. A guy in a railway overall popped his head through the open doors and said, ‘this train is not going any further,  busses are being sent from the depot ( Read more... )

outstretched on the sunset currents

tattered wing

spies the rind from the bacon

that ali nicked from the warehouse

and paddy had thrown for the cats

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Resistance to the greys - what happened to you guys? Have you all fallen from vogue? Your ashen bewilderment losing its - affect - in this age of the now, the inbreath, the life affirming, the all good? Are you a little too much on the dark side of light - grubby ( Read more... )

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lunar eclipse eclipsed by the earth. its been a night for improbability, teenagers flying high on white, blue, yellow gelati. we forego’d go and played mastermind: unraveling the codes we set for each other as children. once more we reminisce about crying cops in blue, pots of green mung dahl and the blood of fleeing Iraqis on favourite t-shirts.

when mikey was a 12yr old his family kept chooks. everyday when they went to collect the eggs something had got there first and eaten out the innards. mikey took this affront to the human-chook family on board and the following dawn set up a camouflaged watch of the chook shed. to his surprise he saw a crow slip through the meshing and emerge a ( Read more... )

Although the train was delayed longer than usual, the thing that struck me as really odd was the young punk with the BMX chatting nonchalantly to an elderly woman. The kid normally stares out the window with his headphones on full blast. A businesswoman, who had just got on the train, joined in the conversation. I was not paying attention to what ( Read more... )

Yesterday the dry spell broke and it rained cats and dogs all day. Even in the aircon world of the council there was a small roar on the tin roof ( Read more... )

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daggy ode to train travel ():trains are sexy ( Read more... )