Embers and flesh – light crept in through gritty city windows, night shapes loped along the street below. She shared shackles with him – her words licked their wounds raw, and he was stricken, alive with the ache. In shock he cast her out of the flames where she danced a staggering pirouette, lithe in…
Month: January 2018
waves
this is where i broke with, gave blood, lived beside the , clashed with, harmoniously. lived here, & near the gutter fanned all night by, & my dissonant voices. dreams. the rooms laid in. dark, in- articulate – source of its own fear, or. here, washed by the intermittent silences, between
Untitled.
Mounting the out, skirts convening demons with an arch moon of bright thigh. Death sighed bloodlessly through her. Shook like a dandelion, she bit down – a mandala of lunacy and limbs. Death idly spun the wheel. “It’s a grim night for a reaper”, he moans “Another haunted Antigone” delaying fate for the enchanting torture…
poems by the sea
the frayed voices. the murmurous waves. all i want is to * if ~ i’m if you ~ ~ i didn’t mean to ~ ~ ~ but the truth is the truth is i didn’t want to know if you…
evening and
evening and evening was in those waters and the lights of far houses drawn d o w n like venetian blinds evening was upside in those waters held still over a running tide occasionally a wavelet would tread the damp sand and slip back into its sinking shallows the pohutukawa watched as trees do grown…
germ
is it hell to be here however long there is; experience the clutter, the silence of this room & nothing more & no-one comes, to love, to break my balls & me stuck in this scene, the same dead end: desk, a dis- used push- chair, extension lead, books, lamp, photographs, computer; wide-fingered spiders hold…
Today I Found My Home
Today I found my army Tomorrow I plead my love of the cause I’ve been accepted in Today I found my calling I’ve levelled up Trolls are fake they fall by the wayside This is a better secret Today it’s become military These are my people I’ve searched for so long The blood that flows…