Written in response to an article implying that climate change is responsible for hair loss in men. I’m feeling it: waves of anxiety run through my inners like slow-cutting knives; my golden-orange locks thin out, to make way for razor-blade edges of silver-white; and I’m all clammy, alternately baked hot and frozen cold, I’m nearlyContinue reading “Savvy Article – Climatopause”
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Savvy Book – The Girl With All The Gifts
I picked up ‘The Girl With All The Gifts’, thinking it must a biography of my childhood, amazed that, somewhat belatedly, I had achieved recognition – even if only as a work of fiction! But, alas, the reality turned out to be pretty grim. Far from achieving recognition, in M. R. Carey‘s story, I, along withContinue reading “Savvy Book – The Girl With All The Gifts”
Savvily-Serious Poem – Lift Lines
Inspired by the words of Christina Henry, in her novel, ‘The Girl in Red’: ‘.. a cloak made of tired that pressed down on her shoulders and made her neck droop.’ (p.32) And by my memory of lamp I once owned, in the shape of a lady wearing a crinoline dress – a lady whose undergarmentsContinue reading “Savvily-Serious Poem – Lift Lines”
Savvy Book – The Girl in Red
Finished it! A tragically-wonderful walk through the woods with a girl going by the name of Red. Tragic, because in the aftermath of a devastating disease, a young woman travels on alone to her Grandmother’s house, as she bravely finds strategies to cope with thoughts of the various family members she was forced to leaveContinue reading “Savvy Book – The Girl in Red”
Silly Poem – One In Before Midnight
Before Midnight arrived, I met the One, but, on the strike of 12, I fled, leaving behind not myself, but my shoe, complete with a note, saying ‘Do not pursue!’ And, after Midnight’s departure, I struck up with the next One. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, 8th October, 2019 Image by Moshe HaroshContinue reading “Silly Poem – One In Before Midnight”
Chapter 1 – The Half-Girlfriend
Rose Howard: The Half-Girlfriend It wasn’t easy, being rid of her Englishness, but she had to try. Otherwise, all she had striven for, and all that she had lost – all ambition and anguish, and the energy she had expended in getting to this point, to where she stood now, would have been for nothing.Continue reading “Chapter 1 – The Half-Girlfriend”
Serious Poem – Forth From Afar
Feeling fear, I worry about my fearlessness, faring all that rolls forth from afar. Forthright, I go, floundering forward. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019 Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Serious Poem – Tuesday Morning Savvy Tips – Net it! Savvy Book – The Legacy
Serious Poem – Tuesday Morning
Sun, brightness, clear mind. Bubbling up, I splash myself into movement – calling, bouncing, buoying others. Grabbing, peeling, wolfing banana maintenance. And oats to last. Stop, sit, stop, sink. Temple invasion. Oh. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, 8th October, 2019 Image by Elena Tishkova from Pixabay Serious Poem – Monday Morning SavvyContinue reading “Serious Poem – Tuesday Morning”
Savvy Books – Old and Wise
Not sure that I need to read the latest book by Katherine Rundell! Just came across it on a perusal of Waterstones latest non-fiction list, the title of ‘Why You Should Read Children’s Books , Even Though You Are So Old and Wise’. And no prizes for guessing why it caught my attention! Those of youContinue reading “Savvy Books – Old and Wise”
Serious Poem – Electrical Slices
Fifty, one-hundred, fifty, one-hundred, fifty, fifty, …. forgot WHOOSH! Electrical currents slicing through my head, down my middle, down to my toes, dizziness, spillages – milk, hot water, tea .. then … I remember, the thing I forgot … the thing I was trying to come off … Sertralin … Keep walking, don’t think, keepContinue reading “Serious Poem – Electrical Slices”
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