Listen, you wet-behind-antennae crawlers, I’ve flown, I know – it isn’t worth the cost. We’re big, we’re heavy, armour-plated. Hauling all that bulk up in the air – you’ve lost your energy – you could be forced down where you can’t take off again, long grass for instance, or even worse, hard concrete where some […]

They ride the ridge on tumbling wings, dove-bright, their backdrop the slate-blue sky. Bringers of light, they harness the wind, tug bold on the air with creak-loud sigh. They keep watch, turn on the weather’s whim, guard us, clear-sighted, lumbering, shy.

The locals whisper of her nesting site: the golden sands of Kaminia beach. She paddles through dark watery dunes under a moonlit archway, isolated in a historical time warp of flippers, shell and beak-like lips. In the cool of the night-shift, photographers shuffle and watch the slushy breakwater. She appears like a fossilized rock with […]

A forest fire roasted the first haunch. Someone put two and two together   and those who huddled round the hearth at the first ceremonial feast   breathed in the fumes of a thousand chippies in that prophetic smoke.   While their descendants, sticking plastic forks into their big macs, French fries   watch the […]

I’ve had enough of it, with everything here being evicted, poisoned, cut down, trapped, netted, wiped out. We’re off, the lot of us, through a wormhole to somewhere better.   Well, not strictly a wormhole – I’ve nothing against worms, some of my best friends are worms, but you can’t get a whale through a […]