Writing from the margins, not about them.
DianneEssays and poems written from the margins, attentive to body, place, memory, and the cost of living honestly.
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The Place Inside
This week’s Soul Circle prompt invited us to think about the word inside.
I took the question to my favourite writing place, a graveyard.
I expected memories. I expected ghosts. I expected the dead.
Instead, I found a tree.
Or perhaps I...
Graveyards Are the Only Crowds That Don’t Exhaust Me
Today’s prompt led me to the graveyard again.
It was hot enough for the stones to smell warm. Somebody had left a chip-shop fork in the grass. Buttercups had climbed over names. A bit of brown glass was catching the light pretending to be...
Turning Towards the Light
This week’s prompt explored the emotional movement held inside “-ing” words.
I wrote this sitting in a graveyard, waiting to hear the final result of a literary shortlist, thinking about class, fear, the north, bluebells, and what it mea...
Less Lonely Than Crowds
This week’s piece came from prompt on solitude: not as isolation, but as a kind of returning.
The line “Solitude tastes like…” stayed with me all week, and this is where it led.
Thank you, Beth Kempton, for the invitation to listen more...
Ordinary
Ordinary
There was a line in this week’s prompt that stayed with me.
Not the obvious one. Not the part about noticing.
It was the idea that what feels ordinary to one person might not be ordinary at all to someone else.
That shifted som...
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I write weekly essays and poems about endurance, attention, and what it costs to keep going. If you like body-first writing and quiet clarity, you’re in the right place.
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