GRASSHOPPER, 1889 Stuck fast the grasshopper in Van Gogh’s painting Olive Grove has achieved some immortality, at least so far as it goes for grasshoppers. Like Pharaohs eviscerated, or thylacines …
My Father’s Shopping List (Mark O’Flynn)
The trouble with having a doctor for a father is that you are brought up calling a spade a spade. Or more accurately a spatula a spatula, a scalpel a …
Trees Without Passports (Mark O’Flynn)
Between two palm trees thick with starlings the horizon flattens the waves beneath the sea’s heavy rag. Here before we were, the ocean runs downhill from the perpendicular of one …