Archive - Just One Man

A tractor in the sky, headlights on full beam. Looking lost, looking for the lost. A wandering child. An escaped bandit. A Schrodinger's gossip of…

Aug 13 •

A pair of cats getting fat, but they still bring home the mice. A bed in every room, but still we have to make room. They don't fetch, or come when…

Aug 3 •

July 2025

Don't be early, don't be late, not for your funeral or for a date. Not for yesterday or tomorrow, with your joy or your sorrow. Or hesitate and before…

Jul 31 •

Why do we sleep if we can't dream? A hop, skip and jump into the unreal. Fairies, monsters, the stories unfold. But as we awake, they're never retold.

Jul 29 •

A City Alive: 24 Hour Rock n Roll Party

A selection of Haiku-esque poems following Oasis at Heaton Park July 12 2025

Jul 16 •

Goalies and Drummers

Goalies and drummers: the short supply, Rolls Royce of teenage social circles. Goalies and drummers: the custard, friendship busting, chains of teams…

Jul 15 •

Grow, grow, grow your own. Dig some soil, throw some seeds. Veg, fruit, try the lot. The more you sow, the less you shop. I don't want chemicals on my…

Jul 11 •

An Ant Named Colin

I spot an ant upon my patio. Scrambling over stones: two, three, four more. Like raisins taking a hike, across monstrous mountains. Consistent…

Jul 10 •

Merf Up / Comms Down

merf, womp, plung merf, womp, plung What the fuck have I done? Breed some new age futuristic, sarcastic, linguistics. I'm not talking text speak, street…

Jul 8 •

Maccie Dee's Drive Thru

Quiet please, concentrating. Radio off. Specs on. Memorise defaults: chicken burger, banana milkshake, medium. Two lanes. Counting cars. Lane 2. Can't…

Jul 3 •

Uninvited Guests

The cack cack cack and the craw craw craw of the monochrome magpie and the rainbow jackdaw. With an act of ungentlemanly birdfare, they awaken the wood…

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Why is the bath so much shorter than my bed? Twisting my knees up near my head. Boiling, freezing, sometimes just right, but never the top half that…

Jun 28 •

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