Anne van Alkemade

A creature caterpillars along the ravine at the same rate as Bug. Its antenna quiver as it filters movements and space in the air above its head.

The floodgates have opened
And the dam has burst.
Issuing forth
this hurt-filled verse.

The coroner concluded there had been an obstacle half buried in the soil which appeared to have been removed from the scene soon after the accident by ‘person or persons unknown’

“There is no hope, no prayer. We’re all doomed.”

“What happened to your watch?”
“It got caught in the blender."

When it’s time to get up for school
Daddy is ready for work.
But the day would fly by if Daddy and I
could switch places by some lucky quirk.

The first time Emma and Shaz met, Emma thought her heart would leap up through her throat and high tail down to shitsville.

Sergeant Johns knew Vinny quite well and had grown accustomed to coming across bizarrities when he took Vinny’s calls. So, he wasn’t surprised when he saw Bert Warden face down outside his dunny.

Or are there voices taunting you
with loving words of care,
but expecting the impossible …

So she waits forever more
under the loquat tree.

They say you’d never
ever make it through
so tell me, girl,
Would you do it for love?

the sex wasn’t so bad … she even enjoyed it sometimes after he’d gone to sleep.

Perhaps a mischievous wraith
is giving its joists a jolly good tickle!

Down beside the old Teddy Bear Tree
if you look very closely you might see …

"I do get great satisfaction seeing people run like the clappers. I find it somewhat disconcerting though if they have a heart attack and keel over and die …"

true love once tested falls foul in one’s mind

Digital seconds ticked over on the bomb as he worked at the table leg, inching it second by second towards him.

All these things impossible
make loving you improbably

Pigs and spiders
start appearing

It’s true to say that the sprites black and white,
with the clarity of soul and unprejudiced sight,
could teach the world lessons ever so wise,
leading to that rare, precious prize.