Walking by the sea, the insects lost on the wind, fly with the salt spray into my face, careering into my cheeks. A break in the clouds reveals a cold sun that for all its power fails to penetrate the thick blasts that push struggling people into railings, fighting to keep their balance as they climb all shapes against bitter biting whirlpool swirls that leave the cheeks raw. A cat cowers in a doorway unable to see a path to home, the fur rug, the crackling fire, the sound of […]

In death we are all equal but David Bowie transcended even that truth. I see a queue, as long as eternity, shuffling feet slowly moving forwards towards the precipice of the unknown. Mostly anonymous but here and there a glimpse of recognition as you watch the line tumble into a bottomless pit of final days. One by one they fall, leaving behind loved ones, relatives and followers, and it’s the living who suffer as the darkness descends as it inevitably will. The last breath of a stranger that you knew, […]