Uneven Floor

An independent poetry journal. Watch your step.

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2014/12/18

Happy as...

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              1. Larry hits a bar after work. Hits it hard, like the punchbag at the gym he doesn’t go to anymore. Face blotched and vei...

A Priest and a Bandit

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(i.m. Eli Wallach) Where we came from, if one did not want to die of poverty, one became a priest or a bandit. You chose your way, I cho...

Bladdered

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As kids, it was open to debate which was the higher form of human endeavour: astronaut, racing driver, or centre forward for Nottingham ...

Personal Improvement Plan

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So here we are. This is where a sense of humour and ambivalence to the internet use policy has got me. I would like to thank Oscar Wilde, ...

Horror movie with chicken

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Chicken caught in your main beams at the side of a country road, late at night with jazz on the radio and tiredness setting in… you woul...

Purgatory

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Open the file marked ‘your biggest fear’: watch the paper disintegrate, leaving a void. Step into it. Fasten the seat belt that’s not p...

My preferred funeral

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Play Handel’s ‘Arrival of the Queen of Sheba’ or ‘Zadok the Priest’. As you enter the building take a scoop of my ashes and throw me...
2014/11/20

Nicholas

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When I arrive he says he's sorry for being a bad man. He's shaved his head 'cos his brain is burnt. He bows to present his cr...
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