Mike Bell

They have our fallen dust of concerns – expressions of… Read More »2301: Meta

Now to escape a faintest whiff of fouled explanations –… Read More »2300: Now to escape

Skip intro offered up then our Russian stacking dolls slowly… Read More »2299: Skip Intro

Let me read your Tarot cards laid flat ‘neath vulgar… Read More »2298: Ghost

What might be is in ales & bitter on which… Read More »2297: What might be is in ales

Here is my error log for all to read –… Read More »2296: Error Log

A waist-deep pit to obstruct later disturbances – allotted unsettling… Read More »2295: A Burial

I have embraced this luxury of ageing – auld men… Read More »2294: I have embraced

We are at war with our moments – we combat… Read More »2293: Pennies

Black mathematical tiles have me thinking of riled calculations along… Read More »2292: Tiles

Jupiter & Io [by da Correggio’s brush] – opulence by… Read More »2291: Io

Fatigue stokes a fire in my eyeballs until briefly blinded… Read More »2290: Dog’s Head

That first thirteenth day past Newerday’s hit was not among… Read More »2289: Auld New Year

After us it will flood – Halley’s routes has nothing… Read More »2288: After us it will flood

It is a picture of a thousand+ pieces [a machine-cut… Read More »2287: In Pieces

I’ve tried to write so often in my life –… Read More »2286: No Licence

Swum watchers on beach holidays form an offshore float as… Read More »2285: Beach Holidays

Cracked Photoshop was her fidus Achates [although she knew little… Read More »2284: Cracked Photoshop

Learn to live alone on a helter-skelter orbit – down… Read More »2283: Learn to live alone

Empty an overflowing canopic jar of such thick sour juice… Read More »2282: Heading Down

She’ll cry viscid white tears after each lover departs –… Read More »2281: House of Tolerance

She was bien dans sa peau [one deftly transfigured by… Read More »2280: She was bien dans sa peau

These holidays shall be urge-washed to avoid a disappointment of… Read More »2279: Pulled

An implausibility in a dull resort – a booking –… Read More »2278: An implausibility in a dull resort

It is time for a tipping of stones at a… Read More »2277: Shetland Hauntings

I live with a disappointment in myself that accords to… Read More »2276: I live with a disappointment

Englishmen are branded upon their tongue – by a lisp… Read More »2275: Ventriloquism

Thunberg could be a small Nordic god – Attenborough a… Read More »2274: My Career Advice

Those acts birthed by circles contribute to every decline –… Read More »2273: Circles

This could be Boulogne – or Dover – a common… Read More »2272: Battles

A definition of loneliness? When I feed on left scents… Read More »2271: A definition of loneliness

I shall not miss that rush & unforgivin’ xmas mess… Read More »2270: A Lost Christmas

I was equally unimpressed at valedictions [as at that first… Read More »2269: Afters

Auld Italian boys & women dance hard to Sorrentino’s medley… Read More »2268: A Leader

How loose it has become over these tiring years of… Read More »2267: My Christmas Call

Such a size – magnificent in its reduction [by Gutenberg… Read More »2266: A Small Prayer Book

That urgency of foreign tongues in another film is aligned… Read More »2265: Respiro

Naples has more stories than bright light sources [as Rome… Read More »2264: Pipes

As if a poet [it is all] – I will… Read More »2263: As if a poet

It’s reported in town that he has a racist wife… Read More »2262: Reported in town

We will all be of an age – with a… Read More »2261: A Pint of Philtre

It will be so in sympatico [our futures back then… Read More »2260: David Said

I have a light show at my feet [by an… Read More »2259: Birthdays

Listen to my cheerful zither played above Vienna’s grey gobs… Read More »2258: Harry L Asked

This is my dry stone wall [delineating my extent &… Read More »2257: This is my dry stone wall

I switch on my tree’s lights when visitors arrive –… Read More »2256: Demi monde

That family history we haul has no study to explain… Read More »2255: Accidents

This ringing is my day – repetition on every hour… Read More »2254: An Italian Fitting

There is no casting to redirect his life from his… Read More »2253: A Last Bit Part Player

She can’t be a stripper at fifty – [Ramona knows… Read More »2252: Less Beauty

Jack drove a beetle high into Colorado & a winter… Read More »2251: Overview

This is an occupation of time & space – my… Read More »2250: This is an occupation of time

We walk – taking in gradients & trip hazards –… Read More »2249: Taking In Gradients

On my occasional thought ‘bout ending it [before my ten… Read More »2248: On my occasional thought

Giacometti’s sculptures were weighted by clumpy feet [my survey of… Read More »2247: Family G

Jesus would have wept at such acts – fishermen [no… Read More »2246: Hasting’s Fleet of Hate

I can slump – here – on my sofa &… Read More »2245: Paddleton Rules

You are running out of hours [at your age] as… Read More »2244: Narcissus

There are softening shadows advancing there – a whorling pressure… Read More »2243: No Names Left

& now Omicron is added to our global vocabulary in… Read More »2242: Now Omicron is added

That ember of cigarette was my father’s until he woke… Read More »2241: That ember of cigarette

Priti Patel’s fabulous wave machine has done fine work tonight… Read More »2240: Fabulous wave machine

Five Dead [crossing La Manche in unreported stuff this side… Read More »2239: Five Dead Crossing

My grip is getting stuck in holding things – less… Read More »2238: My grip is getting stuck

To re-unite us with ourselves first agree to eject nothing… Read More »2237: To reunite us with ourselves

Poor Mary pulled monsters from stones – then was sold… Read More »2236: Poor Mary

See betrayals of children – in that way we took… Read More »2235: See betrayals of children

No stifling waiting rooms or boot-faced GP staff – so… Read More »2234: No stifling waiting rooms

In Ringles Cross beer-slugged punters slag off a gypsy truck… Read More »2233: In Ringles Cross

Auden said we are by nature actors who cannot become… Read More »2232: Auden said

They will end up walking ahead – not out of… Read More »2231: They will end up

I want sordid bars with foul fizzy lagers – three-deep-ish… Read More »2230: I want sordid bars

An old French man behind round wire glasses guided young… Read More »2229: For Artists

Elegant – will not be inscribed or written about me… Read More »2228: Inscribed

I struggle with that setting of tenderness – a therapist… Read More »2227: That Setting

There were disturbing traits [they showed up on mirrors &… Read More »2226: Streaming

Weybridge Station was my infant scar – I was pushed… Read More »2225: Cutting

That discomfort between vater und tochter – weigh on an… Read More »2224: Vater und Tochter

I’m seeking out a choice cabin to hide within [from… Read More »2223: Cabin Fever

In cul-de-sacs of neighbourly- neighbours we’ll live back-to- back days… Read More »2222: Of Disrepute

He would like one answer to one question [one unasked… Read More »2221: Less Answering

Laika burned alive [there overhead] & Soviets lied – Their… Read More »2220: Laika burned alive

I struggle on skiddy mud – my dog knows it… Read More »2219: A High Wire Act

We’ll re-construct stories to cope with awful stuff [ways to… Read More »2218: Magnets or Mercury

A theorem will spur doubts as much as enquiry [send… Read More »2217: Theorems

A horse of discarded shoes rises from a mere of… Read More »2216: Wearings

I am told forgiveness will set me free from resent’s… Read More »2215: How to Forgive

Squalls play along Old Steine compelling sky rats to adjust… Read More »2214: Another #29

I find myself being an old man when I turn… Read More »2213: Beige Thoughts

Did they know of damage done? A flash description [now… Read More »2212: Plastering

Surely stillness counters physicists’ explanations of time [surely escape’ll come… Read More »2211: Surely stillness counters

We will choose whom we marry – but not what they… Read More »2210: We will choose

Some of us will no longer heal [patches & parts… Read More »2209: Presents

There are still photographs of hips – spread-eagled – on… Read More »2208: A Blur

Here our weight of things – of lost words &… Read More »2207: Sex Fossils

We dour victims of her five-point- palm-exploding-heart technique roll-over –… Read More »2206: Thrills

Perhaps don’t examine each other’s scars – not too closely… Read More »2205: Bloodied Strips