There’s something intimidating about a blank book, Especially that very first page: One feels what one writes should be important, A potent first scene to a glorious, unwritten stage. So I hesitate, blunt pencil poised on the line, And feel a slight sense of incoming fear; Future readers will surely judge me by this, My [...]
I am fascinated by the tattooed ladies, I see them in offices, cafes and cars: I want to yank at their clothes and see Their interpretation of ‘needle-arts’. I am infatuated by tattooed ladies, And the unexpected bursts of ink That peep out from under hems and sleeves, Or show when their necklines sink. I [...]
I was the designated driver, (the only reason I was paying attention) when we went out for lunch with your family, and Aunty’s recent travels were mentioned. She announced, after five glasses, two of Chardonnay, one Shiraz, two of scotch, that following her triumphant return, she’d a holiday video we would watch. We rallied around [...]
I slept in my grandmother’s spare room, Where a pulled string sucked away the light; And the spare bed faced the wardrobe, whose doors had rotted off (following a creeping mouldy leak) and this appearance was preferred, and so the doorless cupboard showed off shelves and shelves of linen. Cool and crisp and vaguely morgue-like [...]
I am honey, I am wine, I am sensuality divine: I blossom under Springtime’s haze And flourish during Summer’s days. I nourish the dragonflies and bees, I scent the air with languid ease, I drive the birds to sing each dawn, I coax the harvest to be reborn. I am the green erotic drive, The [...]
I sit, at 4pm, and consume a slice of banana cake four dried figs a fun size packet of chips and a cup of tea. I have nourished, I have pleased, I have sated the stirring sleepy impulse that demands sweetness, salt and tea, who buffers and shields when satisfied, and howls when denied. I [...]
Drink the syrup, drink the juice, And swallow without gulping: Listen to the words the boxes produce, Which tell you how you’re coping. Pay attention when they cite your worth, And how you can improve it, There’s a starting bid, stamped at birth, And no way to remove it. Take it down and take it [...]
forty degree heat: and the taste smell belch of chlorine from swimming and drinking the pool; the sweet sleep seeps while you’re drying in the sun with a towel around your head wise-man style. Oven air and skin peeling off, and the taste smell stick of sunscreen; swimmers drying on the pool fence. Christmas is [...]
Amber and ginger, Supple and wriggling pup, Eagerness itself. I am home from work: the brown one is delighted: squirming happiness. Brown dog ecstasy in walking, loving, eating warms and humbles me. In peddling sleep, The brown dog relives her joy, and delights in chase. Though I am fleeting, I have a ginger pup’s love. [...]
Lily pads drift along the shiny shadow stream, And form a firm flat barricade of broad, dry green; Tiny green amphibia and tiny sparking darts Implied by under-lily ripples in the stream’s shady parts. The sky mirrored weirdly, warped by the water’s winding, The sun flicker-fragmented on each ripple-tip blinding, The suggestion of the stream [...]
