Writing Archive

Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.

[a desk lamp, various ink bottles, a blade, an envelope enclosed with a ribbon and a penned letter].

  • lovers

    amo amas amate lovers i’ve loved & now can’t remember them not even names tho’ i’m sure there’s a note somewhere an old diary scuffed corners notebook registering the heat when they left maybe…

  • easy talking

    with this child of mine she thinks where i talk of hard times is when her mother & me parted & bless i don’t ever disagree if the hard times came later in the…

  • fearless

    he calls me after that conversation late in the night refreshments having been taken me waxing poetical on saudades that Portuguese word me having my own missing person romance & him not listening to…

  • Sister from another mister, Brother from another mother.

    Amanda & Simon Sister from another mister, Brother from another mother. The world is a fascinating place to me: how two people i share blood with yet have no connection to. And how much…

  • ANGER part 1

    Expressing Anger The instinctive, natural way to express anger is to respond aggressively. Anger is a natural, adaptive response to threats; it inspires powerful, often aggressive, feelings and behaviours, which allow us to fight…

  • The Great Pyjama Party Pooper of 2014

    Callum Inges reflects critically on Phil Speys’ attempts to reinvent himself and find ‘inner grace’. He recalls Phil’s past misadventures, including a failed fashion venture with pajama wear, leading to chaos and ridicule at…

  • wanting dirt

    he’s nudging hinting at something wanting dirt on her his ex boss suggesting i might have done the low & dirty with her & now he’s wanting gossip stuff he can put on repeat…

  • old stomping grounds

    stop to eat ushered to a seat I see a blonde head er can i sit over there? i’m asking nice to be out of her sightline there she is older hair thinner face…

  • Existentialism

    EXISTENTIALISM Latin “Existere” – “to stand out, to become or to emerge”  Martin HEIDEGGER research assistant to HUSSERL, mostly unreadable, between the wars.   Roots are in writings of Soren Kerkegaard and Frederick Nietzsche.       (Good book…