A selection of writing about love and sex, the pursuit of, the absence of and the midst...
23 May 2022 8 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
October 31st 2019 Dearest Woolworths, In reference to the product I purchased from you in the naïvety of my youth, that being middle age - er, I want my money back. On the grounds of it being mis-sold. I was led to believe that life would be sett...
11 Jan 2022 4 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf
THE REVERENCE/ETERNAL PUNISHMENT Later, after I am broken, hollow, and caught suspended somewhere between life and death, I want to be taken further (deeper) into that fracture from which I once ran. I want to forget the woman I once was...the one w...
12 Aug 2021 5 minute read 3 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Handmade Lies And as I sit here. Wearing the red lipstick, that you willingly smeared across your face, as you kissed me deep and full, amongst the cotton blooms floating dustily, cinematically, about ourweus in that shitty carpark in June. I’...
16 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I spent most of yesterday dancing round to Bjork and Radiohead... After my last post about qualifying, yes, I am in celebration mode, but am also having to isolate due to track and trace. I'm not ill, so been twiddling my thumbs a bit... Here is a li...
22 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf
In response to international poetry day on Sunday just gone (21st March) and also my last post, here is a poem I wrote a few years ago... The Awakening part 5... Yes, that means that 4 came before it. The first 3 I wrote 25 - 20 years ago about a...
27 Feb 2021 1 minute read 8 comments (S)llew la Wulf
This post is short but sweet... Having a little walk this evening and this song, Ghost Town (by The Specials) came on my headphones... Seems fitting. It's another Saturday night in a normally bustling city. Folk going into town or just out to a loc...
27 Feb 2021 4 minute read 1 comment (S)llew la Wulf
And Spring has sprung!! Went for a lovely long walk with my children today... Blue skies, no breeze and a full 14°c... Hardly hot, but warm and nice to feel the sun on our skins. Saturday mornings are often very lazy for us, getting up and out...
19 Feb 2021 2 minute read 6 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I don't normally do recipes on here, but have woken up this morning with this meal in my mind... My mother is Indian, lived in Central India until she was about 11 years old, when her parents decided to move to the UK, where just a few years later,...
15 Feb 2021 2 minute read 8 comments (S)llew la Wulf
When I was a young girl, I had an alter ego, and her name was Juanita... In Juanita I could be anything. I could be strong, fearless, beautiful and always facing forward, never looking back. I needed her in the troublesome childhood I had. She helped...
13 Feb 2021 1 minute read 3 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Have you ever heard a piece of music and without knowing the meaning behind it, just wept? This piece of music is one of a very few that has had that effect upon me, and me being me, I had to find out some more about it. Oswaldo Golijov wrote...
