making sense of my world
by artist Helen Shaddock

Speedy Gonzales

The Thing Poetry and prose Speedy Gonzales It takes a lot to stop me It is my time I’m in my own world Absorbed in an audiobook Concentrating on a podcast Trying to solve today’s issues Figuring stuff out Dealing with the voices There she goes. Speedy Gonzales I storm straight past If I stop, […]

Write-off Day

The Thing Poetry and prose Write-off day It is somewhat ironic that the day I have decided to call a total write-off day is the day that I eventually decide to start writing this. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but never quite knew how to start. I’ve had a lot of other […]

ED#2 James Joyce, Passage from Clay

artEDition Curated art, stories and writing James Joyce, extract from Clay She put on her spectacles and looked at the clock. It was ten minutes to nine. She opened the cupboard and took out a piece of bread and butter and sat down to eat it slowly. As she ate, she thought of the things […]

ED#2 In-between creatures: Anorexia is not a middle-class disease

artEDition Curated art, stories and writing In-between creatures: Anorexia is not a middle-class disease ‘Like the mind, the body / ingests memory…/ I devour everything. Empty vessel’ – Cynthia Cruz, ‘Fragment’ in Hotel Oblivion (2022) Diary (March – June 2012)Jasmine Jade2025 A response to Cynthia Cruz’s personal essay, which can be found here: https://criticalflame.org/the-space-between-a-personal-essay-of-anorexia/ American poet and essayist […]