Author: Stuart Miller-Osborne

  • Joe Nietzsche

    And those who were seen dancing Were thought to be insane By those who could not hear the music I read this whilst sitting perfectly still On a railway platform in Southern Italy And those who were seen dancing Were thought to be insane By those who could not hear the music I read this […]

  • An Italian Train

    I was on an Italian train Speeding though the summer It was agreeably busy With ordinary people Reading ordinary books I was not reading As my attention was devoted To the beauty of the limpid hours

  • Paul Gustav Fischer

    Joe we all thought you and Sephine Had been kidnapped No we were in Denmark Why Denmark Because apart from being a lovely country I wanted to introduce Sephine To the paintings of Paul Gustav Fischer Especially his nudes Why his nudes Because of their beauty I cannot say that I have heard of him […]

  • Coucou

    Lives in my apartment She was never invited I found her there one day When I returned From my travels I have asked her to leave But she refuses this request And looks tearfully at me With sadness in her wild raven eyes

  • The Fear of Ghosts

    I spend many hours Watching my lava lamp mature From modest roots It becomes a universe Full of spinning objects It dilutes my fear of ghosts

  • A novel painted

    I have decided to paint my next novel As I am growing bored Of the everlasting procession of words

  • Clotilda

    Was sitting on the old stone steps High above the sea in Portofina The von Derp family were enjoying a picnic Apples cheese and fresh bread rolls Attractive confectioneries subtly wrapped But Clotilda chose only chilled lime water As she was deeply in love with her German cousin

  • apocalyptic garden

    the roses have a less than ideal so do the daises red blue and while in a few years this garden will be a wasteland nothing will grow only the household plants will survive the primroses will not suffer neither will the smooth violets or the liquid buttercups

  • Bar Cuba

    I do not drink as I dislike drinking Nevertheless Sephine and eye Also visited the Bar Cuba Which was very near Virginia’s seat I had two gin and tonics Which finished me I took Sephine back Hoping that Josie and Cora Would not be in My wish was granted And I was soon holding Sephine […]

  • Retro Patterns in Space

    Black & Blue is a bar in Richmond I often meet friends there It was the only bar that I have visited That has paintings of coloured wellingtons Hanging on its white washed walls The bar was also the place Where Sephine had given me a copy Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s lost novel Until August […]