Relationships

“Sustained by Blake’s Vision”

With so many unhappy couples I am sustained by Blake’s Vision, as described to his friend and patron Thomas Butts...

“My First Patient”

My first patient, a married woman in her mid-thirties, was an inpatient in a neurosurgery ward. She had been suffering from severe headaches for many years. The neurosurgeon, though academically brilliant, seemed to have an unsympathetic attitude and was subjecting her to a number of painful procedures, which included pneumoencephalograms, blood tests, cerebral arteriography, X-rays, lumbar punctures, and so on.

“It Doesn’t Take Time to Love a Puppy”

It doesn't take time to love a puppy. You do - or you don't.

“You Are As My Mother”

You are as my mother
aspired to be:
when I look in your eyes
– it’s her love I see.

This is reprised (“haiku’d”) as

You are as my mother
– it’s her love I see.

Which can be further abbreviated to

You are
– I see.

And the “you” is anyone, everyone, anything, everything.