I have lived and worked across a wide arc: the theatre, the sea, prison yards, classrooms, and the limestone of Gozo.

For a long time, I was told words were not my territory. In truth, I spent half my youth looking out through classroom windows, marked down as slow, carrying a persistent need to explain and excuse my place on the planet.

The pieces gathered here grew out of that tension. What follows is an effort to look closely at the world and describe it without disguise.