Undergrowth

Poetry

Thistles and Thorns

LOVE POEM #4: The pathway to passion. Barbed beginnings. Soft landings.
Poetry

A Badger on the Road

Nature’s struggle in the English countryside
Poetry

Slivers of Gold

From winter’s depths, inching to spring
Poetry

As the Lights Dim and Die

On my mother’s peaceful final hours
Poetry

Somebody’s Stolen the Moon

America, a thousand miles away, and the Me is looming dreadfully close
Poetry

The Wedding Poem

Some sparkle to sprinkle on your wedding speech
Poetry

Flesh Within

LOVE POEM #3: Frustration. Barriers. Desire.
Poetry

Seraphim

LOVE POEM #2: The heavenly choir. Peacefully blessed. Simple desire in an infinite cosmos.
Poetry

Hourglass Sand

Cause and consequences, the concertina of time, human failings.
Poetry

Buzzer’s Call

On decline. On Decay. On the end of things.
Poetry

Oversense

LOVE POEM #1: Rawness. Intensity. Yearning.
Actuality

Flawed Claude

Adventures in AI, in which Claude admits to “talking out of my ass”
Poetry

Moor

Memory. Change. Urban spaces. Youth. Leeds.
Poetry

Five Sheets or Less

Passion’s fading spark. The end of pornography. Littered hinterlands.
Poetry

#redFlag

Social media shortcomings. AI silliness. Inevitability.
Poetry

One Mile Inland

Waves roar. Distance whispers. Intimacy echoes.
Poetry

Silt

Shadows lengthen. Presence and absence. Nature knows.
Poetry

De-

Love dissolves. Hearts rebel. Destiny prevails.
Poetry

Tendrils

A comforting presence at a funeral. Loss, connection and hope.
Poetry

Bones in the Rocks

Family, ferries, fatherhood and the pull of home.
Poetry

She’s Up St Mary’s Again

Fading. Dementia dissolving. Fog.
Fiction

Dorothy, the Demon and I

Hallowe’en story: ELIZA in the Underworld. Terror lurks. Choice becomes destiny. Freedom has a price.
Poetry

Cold Weather Front

Night. Predators. Season’s turn.
Poetry

A Bang from the Inky

Thunder breaks. Nature transforms. Life persists.
Poetry

Boiled Air and Brine

Heat and sand. Separate souls. Ocean and tree-shade.
Declaration

Manifesto

An unsure hand taps the sign: “A. B. C. – Always Be Creating”

Undergrowth is a collection of writings by Ian Winter.

Dr Harmony Volta-Wright is an experiment in automated literary criticism. The content of the article, poem, story etc. is thrown at the Claude AI platform, which ventriloquises a critique. It tends towards flattery, sating the author’s ego.