"Distilled short stories …

… Arrows and Onions: images that wound and inspire – Essay it like you mean it. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

‘I think that a poem should be understood at first reading, line-by-line. But I don’t think it should be exhausted at first reading. I hope that what I write gives the reader something when they read it first, enough, in fact to make them read it again.’

See also: Radio Poems.