Stuart Miller-Osborne

TomTomTrixieTom sat on the hill with his wife TomTomTrixieTom They were awaiting the eclipse with many others on the hillside that over looked the bay The professionals had brought splendid cameras which were all pointed in the direction of the morning sun TomTomTrixieTom and his wife had only their camera phones with them but these […]

Jen-Sten-Juliet sat in her mother’s greenhouse counting the many fruit flies It was a meagre occupation but fulfilling as she enjoyed counting Since she had started two of the fruit flies had died so she had to amend her calculations 12-2=10 On the whitewashed stone wall of the greenhouse was a bat who watched the […]

The Birds in the High Nests The birds in the high nests Have a distinct advantage Over the birds in the low nests As they are closer to the stars   A Small Act of Kindness   I suppose I have been selfish all my life taking what is not mine and disposing of it […]

The Victorians of Hendon Would have admired my new born son But sadly we moved to the countryside Before he could speak So he was unable to answer their questions    

When I first met Rail Fox he had a large snake dangled around his neck. It was not a python but a harmless snake from the Amazon Basin The snake told me a story about a woman called Sophie Gray Once a year in the first week in July the Day of Ghosts is celebrated […]

I wonder how many people who have flown are now dead?    Well those who died in crashes are obviously dead    And Orville and Wilbur Wright Crystal Scallop and her friends Douglas and Pretty were sitting on the terrace of her parent’s villa on the island of Majorca It was the last day of […]

Oh rest in the gutter Ye timid creature For somewhere in heaven You might feature   A short rhyme written in chalk near to the remains of a dead robin Henley on Thames – March 2015    

The Bookstore on the Beach Green Oliver ran a bookstore on Venice Beach It stocked many modern writers And Kierkegaard sold especially well Oliver could always be found in his shocking pink deckchair In front of the store Many people considered him to be a slacker But I knew the truth For when the store […]

a ruddy cheeked farm girl was building a dry stone wall her only refreshment was a flask of black coffee southgate-long street street names are all essentially the same the regeneration of james p grace   as he travelled on a bus he saw a poster of beethoven middle-maze middle-gaze a boy from the vincent […]

Josef K and Beryl B were deep in discussion about forward and backward movement Beryl maintained that a car could only travel backwards and forwards on independent occasions and would never be able to travel in both directions at the same time Josef disputed this and noted that of one placed a car on a […]