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Hello. What to say? I'm a would-be poet, part time student and full time dreamer. I hope you enjoy the poems I write, although I really don't write them to be enjoyed. I write them because sometimes I feel if I didn't write, I'd go mad. There's a lot of excess energy bubbling up under the surface with me, and I find that poetry, and prose, are ways to channel it and make it useful. There's something about the act of creating that's very powerful, and it seems to make me feel better and stronger, although I don't quite know why.

I'm a very visual, sensory person. I like brevity and humour, and loathe pretensions. Good writing is immediate and visceral. It doesn't need 100 words when you could say it in 5. So that's what I'm trying to do when I write. I usually don't succeed, but I hope I'm getting better!

I'm a shy person, so if I don't seem very friendly or active, it's probably just that I'm nervous and retiscent. Imagine me as a frightened kitten hiding behind the sofa. That's how I feel most days.