Indescribable depth of pain
As she defines a new horizon
This uncertain home lacks
Cats and comfortable beds
Depth
Test Subjects
There was something wrong with the self-checkout at Queen’s Grocer, I could tell. I didn’t know quite what it was yet, but I was sure there was something wrong with it. “Insert bills, or select method of payment,” said the robotic female voice.
My Burdens
Do you remember that time when we got lost camping in the mountains?
When I asked if your pack was heavy, you assured me it wasn’t
Standard Operating Proceedure
SOP
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Somewhere in the region of seven-hundred-and-fifty-thousand medical files are stored in a remote warehouse leased to a well-regarded medical insurance company. The project is as follows; to manually re-organise each file into three distinct sections, digitally scan each section, and upload to the company’s state-of-the-art archive and retrieval system. The end result of this endeavour is to ensure that at the push of a button some drone in the Stockholm office or in the Buenos Aires office or in the Dundalk office may easily access a detailed description of Mrs So-and-So’s stool samples. Despite the considerable time and resources invested thus far in the project, acceptable progress has not been achieved by the company.
Woman on the Balcony
two three times a week
I see her sitting on the balcony
when weather permits
here in old Italy town
in what is left of North Beach
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Wavonna Quinn, known as Wavy, born in the backseat of a car to drug addicted and drug dealing parents, is the heroine of Bryn Greenwood’s third novel. That she fell in love at the age of eight with a man who was twenty and pursued him through years of trial and trouble is the (some would say) inappropriate subject of a novel so full of ugly and wonderful things. The truth is the inappropriate people in Wavy’s life were her parents and while doing the best she could, she found the perfect person for herself.