From the Editor - Fall 2021
By James Carson
Fall is a time for the nostalgia that so often grows out of our memories of school. It was in late October 1985, at Mitchell High School in Bakersville, North Carolina, that I decided to win.
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There Must be 50 Ways of Looking
By Nicholas Bradley
Goats were sedated … before being put into harnesses
as part of the goat relocation program.
NEWS REPORT
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Pine Needles
By Bruce Meyer
Perhaps it’s not the perfume
but the sting
of running barefoot
from the cottage
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Offering from a Wolf
By Mark Anthony Jarman
Halloween arrives with a blue moon, a harvest moon, a big hunter’s moon for our hunt for Richard.
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Beirut
By Oliver McHugh
There’s a divinity in glass
That cannot be ignored,
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Sir Walter Scott: History Man?
By David McVey
Many still regard kilts and Highland dancing and tartan and pipe bands as kitsch, but they can’t deny that they are distinctive, unmistakeable, and instantly recognizable.
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Melbourne Village Fair, Derbyshire
By Hamish Guthrie
We come to this green custom
old as chalices, in summer on the grass.
Our way is down a medieval lane,
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Lorry - from the Encyclopaedia of Modern Understanding
By Sara Salih
Your father Al-Tayeb Mohammed Salih (ATMS) travelled to school in (on?) a lorry, poss. also train, boat but did ATMS ever tell you about this? – v. unlikely, only mentioned boarding school when dying @ St. Helier’s Hospital Epsom Dec. 2008.
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Assembling IKEA
By Anthony Jenkins
The happy cartoon figure in the instructions is shown assembling the correct tools for the job and calling the IKEA help line for assistance.
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A Matter of Fire
by Graeme Hunter
Intrigued by the eruption of Vesuvius, which had been dormant for at least 300 years, Pliny the Elder scrambled a couple of galleys and went to have a closer look.
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