The Geecologist

Landmarks

Landmarks

Mar 28, 2020 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my guess that other tongues in these islands also possessed wealths of words for features of place – words that together constituted a vast vanished, or vanishing, language for...
Homegoing

Homegoing

Jun 9, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

In the other room, Beulah started whimpering in her sleep. The child had night terrors. They came at unpredictable intervals: one month here, two days there. Some days they were so bad she would wake herself up to the sound of her own screams or she’d have scratches...
Pricksongs & Descants

Pricksongs & Descants

Mar 16, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

so bless me I’m ruminatin on the old times when virtue was its own so-called reward and acquired a well-bejeweled stud in the bargain propped up there in the stale limp sheets once the scene of so much blood and beauty like I say propped up and dyin away there in my...
A Lady As She

A Lady As She

Feb 24, 2012 | Featured, Fiction, My Lies, Poetry | 0 comments

i saw a lady as she walked she walked with grace flowers fall like confetti petals o’er pavement, like slow snow she walked with purpose i saw a lady as she approached she spoke with care yet still mine heart did burst into flame the fire in my chest, like a...
Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Jan 4, 2009 | Fiction | 0 comments

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, thought it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included. Now it’s so small it fits in my head. You must imagine a hot and humid place, bathed in sunshine and...