http://snakeropes.jessrichards.com/ This was the original website for Snake Ropes, and a few people have said they miss it, so I’m posting it here. Jay Roberts did a fantastic job on …Read More
Some days you just shouldn’t get out of bed
Some days you just shouldn’t get out of bed. Some days you just have to. Solution 1: take the bed with you wherever you go and stay in it. Solution …Read More
Fragile
I’ve agreed to this curse of seven years of silence. And until those years are over, my six brothers remain swans. I don’t have to seal up my lips with …Read More
Travelling on
Using a dodgy phone camera, I’ve been photographing objects and moments during the last year or so of my travels. There’s an image of set of keys to a rented …Read More
Ardtornish Estate and Scottish Book Trust Commission
While at the stunning Ardtornish Estate working on my third novel, I wrote a memoir piece as the commission for the award. Such personal writing is new to me, but …Read More
Shedding Skin
I just watched a snake shed his skin. He peeled himself out of it or it off himself with muscular movements the old skin lying in the sand shapes of …Read More
The Jugglers
For C.Y. Juggler I To throw these plates in perfect balance as if lighter than the weight of thoughts, I must believe I’ve taken them from some dream of …Read More
a year of no home – home/less home/more home/free
For a year now, I’ve been flitting and have had no fixed and settled ‘home’. I decided to mark time passing by posting some fragments about it all here. Other …Read More
Secret poems written = 1 of 45 (and growing).
Moving Mountains The light casts mountains to blue shadows which only fall because they’re afraid of heights. There’s a shine in the trails of aeroplanes. It’s caught in a …Read More
Ardtornish Blog for the Sunday Times
The thing about being on ‘retreat’ is that it’s perceived as restful. A place where you lie down or dream, away from the world which sent you retreating from it …Read More