X is for...

1) X is a terrible letter when you’ve restricted yourself to writing on certain topics! I can’t just make up a character called Xenon, or go for an Xray.... And I do wonder if I have the Xfactor-for-writing....

X is a multiplication sign, so I am hoping that my sales of “Despite the Angels” will multiply, my good reviews will multiply, and my energy to get on with publishing “Revisited Sins” will multiply even more! And may the multiplication angels visit me with myriads of creative ideas, and the time to trap them on the page...

2) Here is another poem, about love -where we all use lots of xxx!

19 and 15

Nearly six foot of gangle

gets into bed beside me,

and a beautiful woman

brings her duvet and sits on my feet,

and once again a Christmas morning

resounds with laughter

and “look at this!” and “what is it?”

and I sink below another sea of tissue paper.

An unbroken line of chocolate coins

and a-mandarin-in-the-toe

seems to stretch back through the years

to when they were soft bundles

drowsing milkily against my neck.

But before the past can become more

than a prickle in my eyes,

comes “look at my bubbles!”

and “would you like a marshmallow?”

and the solid happy presence of them

breaks the spell,

and I think, -despite all troubles,

mistakes and failures,

to have raised such kids as these

I have done well.

3) XXX  No common homoeopathic remedy starts with X. Kiss it better!