Crankwood

A Collection of eclectic (I hope)tales, poems, fiction, ,mysteries, horrors, humour. That hopefully make sense, are readable and enjoyable. But I suppose we cannot have everything.

A Luminous fish

he chooses pain but comes back for more

A Pipistrelle in Winter

This winter roars, the ice stick spike

A Victorian Poem of Self Love

And under the sheets the boy awakes Light in his eye, his dream creates

Alexion

What does the ghost think of that? An escape is always possible.

Alexion 12 Part 1

The entrance to the mortuary side of the building was through a side door kept hidden behind a shiny sick yellow curtain.

As in the field he sat

ry to change someone and you have lost

Conspiracies Sources

For weeping and debt are stained in our ears as calamity beckons licentious fears

Crankwood Chapter 1

It was in a similar way that rumour floated and buzzed unknown around our innocent and largely unconcerned hero’s head.

Crankwood Chapter 2

understanding the real difference between being alone and loneliness.

Crankwood Part 1

Mystery, Horror and a small boy.

Cully

The story of my Kestrel
Cherry

David 1917

I remembered your foot pushing towards my face through the grass.

K

K was short and exceptionally thin. He had long, lanky blond hair that was always greasy, a big nose, pock marked skin and false teeth.

Mi Mam & the Curate

With apologies to Marriott Edgar

Our Stan, Doris & the Bike Ride.

Monologue with apologies to Marriot Edgar

Pastorale

In the hedgerow fields of absent yellow

Pieces

Some words, so gentle Stick behind the eyes
Cherry

Pale and Ignorant

A long exhalation of air, laden, worrisome. A sound in the dark. Two figures le, one sleeps,

Dreaming of Elysium

I dreamt of a beautiful painting, now I cannot remember

The Irish Girl

In bed, waiting for an Irish girl. A good Irish girl she said, not that I would doubt her, not for one moment.

The Crow that said WOW!

He being a very clever Crow, remember.

The Crow that said WOW Part 2

Oh hell, not again thought the Crow.

Die Stimme, die schreit, kann nicht Ihr Herz haben

Trans: The Voice which walks cannot have your heart

The sound of loving Gently

The sound of loving gently And lunar swooping distant sounds That chase from our side The sight of swelling brightly And lover sighing Distant thoughts That wound inside

The Symptoms of Pleasure

in a future less ordinary

The Tree Changes Colour

The tree changes colour The geese have arrived

See my love what we have found

“see my love what we have found”

The Country of Romance

Now heed this well you commentators of truth. The country of romance is not the prerequisite of youth.

Words

With words I speak my doubt, What can I say all hollowed out. Of yet to see and not to. In desperation my thoughts continue. A ruptured task, I'm surely past. All that I knew would never last.
Cherry

Libby

She said unexpectedly that she loved me and would let me touch her.

The Eventual Will of Savien II Cyrano De Bergerac

when Cyrano told Roxanne that it was him at the bottom of the ladder.

Movements in Love

A slipping in

Polidori's Madness

Give it all these romantic fools take to a body and then so use

The Long Death of my Grandfather

The first impression was of red. On the bed, on the walls, on me and my white baby clothes.

Step in the Same Stream Twice

This is what Hericlitus said

Live Happily Enraptured

Live Happily Enraptured The Final Statement of a Philanderer. Being a verse from a Courtier to a Lady. In hope of a happy reply

Least of Gifts

You play with rhyme and words neglect their duty

The Ghost of Time

No hormones, no passion, no love when you die.

The Liability of Caverns

To be this bitter is reasonably correct
Cherry

Plank Lane Working Men's Club Trip to Southport

Bright light that came from her smile shone through the windows and there was a silent roar in my ears.

Insane inside my head

bits of voice or empty waste

I lost the sea

I win my pyric victory

The Erotic Art of Klingsors last Summer

Tied to the flower of wooden release
Cherry

Tie Down Natasha

hope you feel this free soon