What the Dickens?! (On Reading, or Trying to Read, Charles Dickens.) A Twitter-led conversation this morning has led me to write this. In Jan of 2014 I remember saying, clearly, on Twitter that I was going to use 2014 to read ‘all of Dickens.’ Oh, how I was a naïve fool. Big statements on venturing … More What the Dickens?!

Early. Before the green Monk has put his sling-back sandals on and a crump of brownhood is unfurled under a tureen of mute glistening white stars, I turn in my bed and upend. AndSssup. Ablutions with the roar and thirst of the cistern, pea-blossom, wash face – red eyes stare back – in a crimson … More Little Snoopkims