Welcome to the original green folder selection of prose and poetry.

They are a strange collection of words that have (mostly) stayed with me, influenced the way I thought then, in some way shaped the way I think now.

They are mostly 'mainstream', much of the poetry (but not all) is available on the internet already, but probably little of the prose.

I trust the owners of copyright will not be offended by these short extracts from the diary of a nineteen year old nearly forty years ago.

Like me, it is not all there yet, and probably never will be.