Poems

The semantics of colour Is known to many lovers Watch pink stick fill lips And how that black dress Elides your hips Brush back platinum blonde To hang gold from Flesh holes Black stockings ascend […]

As sunlight draws away And years collide with memory I remember that look you had in eye And the colours we painted the world The capers we would surround Sharper, cleaner, brighter Yet our senses […]

Inhale. Invert. Revert. A place outside of this. Where there is quiet. Somewhere solitary for an hour, or a week, or maybe a year or two. Where there is no end and no need for […]

The skin of the beach was perforated by my footprints. I walked along the stained path of least resistance, left behind by wave’s retreat. Then it returns, an insurgency, fighting for territory. It wanes again, […]

I found my soul, not in A church, But in the hallowed secular space of A waiting room. The pews faced the altars of Glass-fronted counters And I patiently waited for a priestly clerk to […]

Here is a message of sympathy to anyone (who shall, and should, remain nameless) finding they have turned 40 years of age. Imagine it set to the tune of ‘Ring of Fire’ by Johnny Cash… […]

There is no festival for literally everyone, which is a shame. Christmas does pretty well; its popularity extends beyond the two billion people who call themselves Christians. On the other hand, I can sympathize with […]

Around the world tonight, The stars are all above us. Me in darkness, others in light, But the stars are all above us. People eating, drinking, sleeping, Around the world tonight. People fighting, laughing, weeping, […]