The Geecologist

Dream State

Dream State

Jul 19, 2025 | Fiction

The house was cramped and musty and low ceilinged. There was beige carpet from the seventies, bric-a-brac on every windowsill, secondhand furniture that smelled incurably of smoke. Someone had taped a hand-drawn sketch of a mallard to the lintel above the stairs,...
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

Nov 4, 2023 | Fiction, Poetry

When I open my walletto show my paperspay moneyor check the time of a trainI look at your face.The flower’s pollenis older than the mountainsAravis is youngas mountains go.The flower’s ovuleswill be seeding stillwhen Aravis then agedis no more than a hill.The flower...
The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

Dec 3, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

It was stupid of Icarius to try to drown the daughter of a naiad, however. Water is our element, it is our birthright. Although we are not such good swimmers as our mothers, we do have a way of floating, and we’re well connected among the fish and seabirds. A...
Congo Journey

Congo Journey

Jun 6, 2020 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

In a stretch of comparative quiet, by a shore of white sand, a bird I recognized at once was wading carefully in the shallows: rook-size, it was brown all over, but its head was remarkable: a big broad bill balanced by a triangle of crest projecting from the back gave...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

Nov 12, 2016 | Fiction | 0 comments

“Abame has been wiped out,” said Obierika. “It is a strange and terrible story. If I had not seen the few survivors with my own eyes and heard their story with my own ears, I would not have believed. Was it not on an Eke day that they fled into...