Solstice Song Sun beating down all the longest day rain throughout the shortest night. Fitting extremes for intemperate days when heat is taken for light. Copyright © 2020 Rob Lock

Anniversary Song That first summer he was water rinsing through her hair, underbelly of the cat; she a crisp clean shirt, baize top of the desk that he dreamed at… and if he’s sometimes now the grease stuck to the bottom of the oven, she the shelf he bangs his head on standing up… they’re…

#Me Neither Six of us together: three women of a certain age – buddies of old – along with their final (here’s hoping) life partners, when, in the fullness of time, the talk turned to estate agents, and one that the others all knew from way back – pillar etc. – who, it transpired, had…