it is the thing about sufferingthe excuses of a friend’s gobbling cheeks full with unknown currency over the ankles in sandthis slow thaw to conscience weathered, open to sky every now and thenwhile dragging knees toward it a glance of redeemed sunshine clapping foreign discoursewhere every shadow is anonymous identical to the core how our … Continue reading There, but for the grace of a stranger

an immeasurable weightthe tear drop fallseverything there is the anticipationpatting a doga travel between lick or bite fifty years ago I bought the albumwith the song of the age I’ll bethis summer Christmas working on my headstonean abstract of heart on a sleevehistory is truancy but when my grandfatherwas laid out by nannain his one … Continue reading Wanna see me juggle

These mornings my dreamsseem to lack production values on the asphalt in the back lotthe noir misplaceduneven between the scenes the director’s chairblown against an earlier century waiting for that new kidchewing words at an angleconfident that the world understands the lines a lone sparrow driftingmaking feast of scattered crumbs then the ocean’s tracer lightsoundtracks … Continue reading That’s all, folks

About four hundred metresbefore Brew Roadout along the Princes Highwayon a rise to your leftif you’re not going too fastthe Peace rock is still there Remember how we hikedinto Lake Tali Karngthat black water blue all fablethe last year of schoolwe saw the unholy tuitiona seared hole in the half back’s thigh Someone on the … Continue reading Stop The War

My name is Judas, I took the money.Not that it was much; I’d have preferred American dollars,like any decent terrorist.It was just that I’d had enough.Lazarus, did he really want to go on,the loaves and fishes, what about the next meal?Bad enough that he had his own doubts,crying in the garden, drawing a crowd, then … Continue reading Iscariot’s Leap of Faith