Returning

Coming back I wonder where Home is. I have offi­cial stamps From thieves to say Enter, Stay. I want to ask Aunty Sue, how do I Apply for a pass­port, from you? We came from China, from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Ger­many, Czech; from...
Melanie & Mick’s wedding

Melanie & Mick’s wedding

My sister, Melanie got mar­ried in Octo­ber 2003. I was in Paris, but I came home for the wedding. ^^ Melanie & Mick in the car afterwards ^^ Melanie & Mick out­side Curzon Hall ^^ Curzon Hall ^^ The wed­ding party (click for enlargement)...

Kiev-Bratislava Non-stop

It is only just september and already leaves turn golden, orange and fall next to green apples, tart in the ukrain­ian sunlight out­side the window the wall of a metal train carriage white number 406354 before we slowly glide sound­lessly away....

Swallowed

rock­ing of the train lurches from kiev to brat­is­lava, through wet forest. this journey is odyssean, unfastened. i have swal­lowed the world and lost sight of land. i can hardly remember where I began. this headache must be...

Lessons from the war

i reas­ons to die: jewish, intel­lec­tual, queer refuses to bow to authority. who­ever’s call­ing the shots, i’m a goner ii forget forced marches: my lame leg would get me shot within forty paces iii news from siberia: the latvi­ans...