Round where I live, it’s quite common to find small piles of detritus left in the back lane as the result of people moving house. This is the residual, the bit that’s left over when people move from one place to another, like shedding a skin. It’s the stuff they don’t want to take with […]
The Conveyor Belt
It’s never-ending. All the Things that have ever died from start to finish. And still they keep on coming…
When teddies die
These teddies were found in the laneway bursting out of a bin liner as if emerging fully-formed from a gestational sac. In that sense, I’m not sure if they are dead or just born. They look new-born to me, given the way their limbs are flung out in all directions and the difficulty they are […]
When Christmas trees die
I heard a story on the news before Christmas about how a local council was offering a free pick-up service for dead Christmas trees because, according to the spokesperson, the sight of them lying in the lane-ways after Christmas was ‘depressing’. I don’t know. Burning a chocolate cake in the oven is a little depressing. […]