28th September 2026

handsome therapist

naked in the holiday hot tub

Wifi technology

© Rachel Green September 2026

Fuhrer Fervour

Is it any surprise

that the far right Eastern Germans

decide to halt the placing of Stolpersteine;

the 'stumbling stones' placed in pavements

to commemorate the Holocaust dead?

Is it any surprise

that the far right American Magas

decide to deny the Holocaust happened;

to eradicate the mentions of Blacks

in the American history books?

Is it any surprise

that a red-headed puppet singer

reads an apology from an autocue

over the sacking of support acts

who decry the destruction of Palestine?

Is it any surprise

that an illegal war on Iran

is quietly begun to divert attention

from a president's paedophilia,

and then even that is side-lined

in the perpetual persecution

of ordinary people...

people who vote Democrat?

© Rachel Green September 2026

German town sparks outrage as far-right and conservatives rally against Holocaust memorial plaques 

 

27th September 2026

 

rarely walked

this particular street

iron gate

© Rachel Green September 2026

Parades Commission

in Belfast High Court

decide to re-start the Troubles.

"Let's allow the racist Orangemen

to march again on Garvaghy Road

and blame the Catholics

for any argy-bargy that happens."

© Rachel Green September 2026

26th September 2026

 

card delivery

wears the dogs out

long walk

© Rachel Green September 2026

Finding Jesus

it turns out the DNA

collected from the Shroud of Turin

in the late seventies

matches the profile of a man alive today.

Jesus reborn, perhaps?

By coincidence, Jesus is the very scientist

who collected the original samples

for the shroud itself.

Consider my mind blown.

Not.

© Rachel Green September 2026

Turin Shroud DNA 'Jesus' claim hits a snag: Strongest match points to man who collected samples

25th September 2024

 

dizzy spell

while practising self-defence.

Sparring declined.

© Rachel Green September 2026

Open Case

dead man

in the furnished flat

of a deconsecrated church

with a market hall inside.

A moderate gargoyle guards

the apartment unoccupied

and the active Ring cameras

show him breaking in, stealing food

and sleeping in the bed.

Then a fountain of blood

as he lies there sleeping

© Rachel Green September 2026

24th September 2026

 

please wash

his pants and socks daily.

Poor man.

© Rachel Green September 2026

septuagenarian

life choices

but Kent Kubasta

of Wooster, Ohio

may have gone wrong somewhere

because he's been convicted.

Illegal GPS tracker

attached to the van

of a Pokémon card distributor.

Dude, when you're seventy-two

is this your life ambition?

And if you need to mug a driver,

why?

© Rachel Green September 2026

23rd September 2026

 

two non-binaries

we refer to as 'The Them'

good omens

© Rachel Green September 2026

Undead

her daughter died

what else was she to do

but grieve and regret the act

that sent the girl to her grave.

Wishing for her

is never advisable

in a world where magic can work

and where 'I wish her alive again'

does not mean the same thing as

'I wish she hadn't died.'

© Rachel Green August 2026

22nd September 2026

 

Warm sunshine

venturing without a jacket

fresh graves

© Rachel Green September 2026

Unsold

sometimes 

the painting doesn't work;

refusing to satisfy;

boards can be painted over;

unfired ceramics dissolved;

canvas re-stretched,

but what of watercolours?

The paper is ruined;

the pigment permeates fibres

and all I can do

is to cut and recycle;

segments in collages and festive cards

unsold

© Rachel Green August 2026