by Jan Hedger | Aug 8, 2010 | Poetry
Canvas stretching the Savannah Horizon a softening watercolour Palette green and granular brown Acacia bleeds a thorny crown Paper Mache of hinterlands Landscape of Africa commands. Pups emerge from coolness deep Painted dogs brush eyes from sleep Socially...
by Jan Hedger | Jul 28, 2010 | Poetry
Canopy swinging Primeval great ape Forages for food Leather-faced focus On loggers below Move far away Babe to protect Refuge elsewhere Leave fruit to rot Nest mother Hammock slung Till sun rise Smoke curl Crackle...
by Jan Hedger | Jul 17, 2010 | Stories
Circus and childhood are like bread and honey – excitement and the sweet smell of sawdust in a large multi coloured tent, whilst one sat hunched on a rough wooden bench – waiting for the whip to crack and the voice of the red-coated ringmaster to peel out, ‘Welcome to...
by Jan Hedger | Jul 17, 2010 | Stories
I didn’t expect him to turn up with a monkey. Very cute though; the monkey, that is, not David. He said he had picked it up in Indonesia and out of all the animals he had filmed, he had found this one hard to resist. So, as Mij the otter, had become part of Gavin...
by Jan Hedger | Jul 3, 2010 | Poetry
Anagram of dream Re-living the horror My nightmare Elixir of, Death.
