"I want to lace Love into everything/ And I want my tears/ To be worth something"

"Oh, fearful heart, my prisoner of doubt/ A fortress I built, where love is shut out"

As the day cools and dusk falls, a blackbird watches the life in the streets below him; his mind lost in memories of a life long ago.

After a fire destroyed his garden, a man struggles to come to terms with the destruction and his loss.

Twisted. Mingled. Ugly. Big. Scary… Some of the greatest monsters are nothing but human in essence. A deep dive into the slasher genre.

In the early 1940s when Malaysia was occupied by Japan, Zara tried to continue on with her life as normally as possible...

On a winter day during lockdown, an author living in the mountains takes in a bird that flew into his window.

Twisted. Mingled. Ugly. Big. Scary. And... alien! This time, The Anatomy of Monsters takes us into space.

Listen to the music of your pulse and feel the winter cold before "the first amber lick of light" in this poem.

Considered a magical plant across continents, mugwort has many uses as a medicinal herb as well as in the kitchen and beyond.

A couple moves into a house on Jericho Road where something lurks in the creaking of the wood at night.

A poem that reflects on unreciprocated devotion as love intermingles with longing, sacrifice, and the haunting silence of ingratitude. 

A park with a hawthorn tree at its center and an encounter with a magpie lead Maggie into a fairy mound of her own.