Word Bohemia

2015-07-27

this is the way the thing began flickering in the shallows turquoise, violet, lemon, half- seen, caught in jade water the effect of refraction was to...

2015-07-04

Most of that day is blurred. Shimmers in and out like an old film, stuck in the projector until it blurs in disintegration. Having her haircut sticks...

2015-06-22

Imogen had always been slender and slight, one of those willowy women who carry their babies low.  She carried hers like a honeydew: smallish, well-contained...

2015-04-05

Holidays are important to us and we take several every year. With the new travel apps going commercial in the seventies, a raft of new holiday destinations...

2015-04-03

The First One arrives like a summer breeze–wafting into the kitchen as if she were already married to the young man; laying the table without being asked...

2015-03-26

The memories are paler now. It feels as though I’m on a ship, waving to you on the dock as you grow smaller, fading into sea haze and the wake widens...

2015-03-12

Startled by a vixen’s cry the legionnaire shakes cold dawn into his head and stares out over the moors. Black scraps of crows circle the hill. Streams...

2015-03-10

Pick a commonly used word and cough up copious amounts of phlegm every            time it is uttered. Anything written about poetry is purely speculative...

2015-03-09

Infinity’s in the palm of my hand Distance is nothing but air Far is made near by a grain of sand The world is closer than I had planned It surges in...

2015-03-09

Science Officer’s pre-landing report for Betelgeuse IV     02.09.2512 Type of planet Rocky with some tectonic activity driven by residual core heat and...