Stuart Miller-Osborne

As my vanity penetrates the colours will change pine needles will be found in the meadows of mountains and the sound of horses on cobbles will seem louder than the voices of small dogs tormented by cats Busy marmots will feast on the flower-heads and sleep on my bed as I search foolishly for their […]

With a sense of wonder I consider the joy musk That intoxicates the assassin In the remoteness of his departure.

In the cafeteria of the museum my fellow travellers imagined the ghost of the   white ship stranded     only I noticed the elegant tide     The German Windjammer Herzogin Cecilie was beached at Starhole Bay in South Devon during the summer of 1936. She remained there for over two years before she […]

From his high office An ace trader named Al Looked at the wet junction Where the paradise house one stood These were his asphalt memories. In his neon cabin A security guard named Chris Checked the lottery results He never bought a ticket But knew all his numbers He liked the pain. In the tangled […]

From this tangled tangled skew you’ll find how a thread will wind and wind still if patient you remain it will come to shape again.   This was a short poem by an anonymous poet discovered in an 1877 Children’s Treasury annual purchased in Marlborough in July 2011. I have added a title and made […]

When Alice, Alice and Alice travelled to the Redwater they always took the agile route past the soda stall Each had a Moroccan appearance even though they had been born on the Manchester Road morocco was their mothers favoured country They were all in fine health until the sixteenth of each month when they hovered […]

The Ten Flags of New Zealand On a water tower in a moderate town flew the ten flags of my mothers land They vanished in a winters storm I did not replace them   Theatre On a naked stage You asked me for my hand My acceptance answered your first prayer I await your second […]

When we arrive at the zoo I will show you only brown animals We will travel on a brown boat Taken from a brown pier along a brown river As you drink yours unsweetened I will take only brown sugar in my tea We will wear brown clothes Which we will dry in our brown […]

Immoral Tale When I swept the sea from your doorstep I found a fish which we shared that evening Immoral Tale (2) I went to the Bettina Poodle Café and ate a hearty meal it closed soon after my visit Immoral Tale (3) A small bird and I shared a milkshake we were aware of […]

Terry Super – Humorous committed suicide in front of an ICE train he always knew that he would die of the cold he married a co-joined twin and had an affair with her sister for this crime he was committed to prison island where he had a butterfly tattooed onto his chest within days it […]