Stuart Miller-Osborne

Boat A small boat passed the pier In the middle distance It was not noticed And vanished Into an undefined horizon   Canvas Milk White Sea Undefined No horizon Exists My canvas is now complete       During the afternoon of the 3rd of March 2017 the sea and sky off of Deal in…

The room was filled with small grey monitors and for a small charge one could watch anything that was not illegal Two men of Middle Eastern appearance were chatting to their wives and kissing the screen when their children appeared with their toys That is where I found Laura sitting in front of monitor four…

Robert de Wytham (Mayor of Wytham 1086) Robert de Clifford (Rector in 1232) from a family in Shrivenham Drogo de Turberville came from a family resident in East Hendred Almaric de Plessis (He of the knight’s fees) William de Braybroke (Rector 1293 -1320 Richard de Pye (Entered Exeter College 1326 Died in 1355) John Berford…

Josef sat at the piano He had set his hands on to the keys but was not playing At nine in the evening Hank Miller checked the cans of oil that were arranged in order on the rack between pumps two and three Rachel was hanging a print on the wall opposite her husband And…

He died on a pure white afternoon With the high sun streaming Through the windows of his room   Later I saw him swimming towards the sun   I should have followed him But I chose to remain within The stalled shadows of my deep cell With my dormant ancestors  

The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty is a 1972 German film I am a goalkeeper but I do not fear penalties But I am alarmed by the players who concede them  

I hear you pass each night Yet I cannot see you Your glow fills my room I imagine your journey  

You are hiding from me Under a shroud of darkness You are very much alive I will not engage in your silly games You do not fool me  

I am sitting on a hot railway platform next to an amputee in shorts She is playing chess with a blind boy much scarred On her radio a song is playing I am dreaming dreaming beaming dreaming beaming at the thought of you All the paths lead to the beach Some are sandier than others…

Roger and his two sisters had boarded the night train and were making themselves comfortable in their small but functional compartment Gillian looked at the furnishings as she deposited her bag on the lower bunk Even though everything changes these compartments remain the same Look there is a shaving point above the sink I have…