Black cushions of recycled Continental are semi-volatile compounds like the Sandhurst centre-back channelling his week into a tackle. In Tiempos, feel the rubber crumb of zinc-enriched non-organic infill rush-tipped on a garden’s London Clay for snails or insects to appropriate a cost for keeping flesh wounds at bay. Rake out the cork, sink a foot […]

After all that transpired: injuries, bereavements, heartaches, relegation to No.3 before a transfer back to Cardiff Met: crucial stops at critical times. After everything you didn’t plan – the sun behind a cloud over Mumbles, the re-take when you stepped off your line: crucial stops at critical times. After everything you thought was right – […]

Through rain drifting across floodlight beams and smoke off the hotdog hut from a corner by the Thames you can see through black metal railings through the smog and instant snap of fag ash a distant heap slumped on the floor. Who is it? Please not Houghton or Davies. A medical phenomenon, our hopes to […]

The day the leaflets came, election sludge we slip into like a soft play ball park, they promised us all a new start. The current incumbent wouldn’t smile, just said ‘It’s strange how all these missiles fly’ and how all my calls get emoticon laughs. The day the leaflets came, I couldn’t distinguish all the […]

The first is the Hollywood, lofted or hooked thirty yards from its target’s foot over an advertising board for East Neuk Salt. The second is the slide rule from a vision barely peripheral – a pitch for heaven in the eye of a needle. The third is a clip down the line you didn’t want […]