The only thing that you will ever learn is that love won’t break your heart, usually.  Tear out those wrist lines paint them in the blood of the goat, carefully. When you hang me upside down remember whether obedience or heavenly nearness, summoned. Hands outstretched offered in peace no longer warmed at the oracle … Continue reading Delphi Descent

It was the sun    of course kissed each cheek    in that Godfatherly way of portentous elegance that glissade    your trademark isotope entry and exit wounds too near    their favoured haunt the record winter    negative decline misjudged by haughty dawn so shallow there    the mirage of three inch deep clouds an icy soak    in Trojan cumulus … Continue reading A Murder of Intent

  a flotsam head not quite ashore treading water     seemingly speaking ancient Greek or reformed Latin who would know these days drifting down a tidal river to eastern beaches water like tea augury symptoms in urine the lost squid in a rock pool waiting for the afternoon tow once hands held out arrival for our … Continue reading Abandoned soliloquy

  Half a picture loads as though 1969 won’t let go. The grainy of a July Winter’s day ball bearings roll a school corridor. Smaller steps slipping, that masquerade of orange clinging to old photos. Peel away the valleys earth beats a seethe. But you choose to live there, is the technical advice. Buzz Aldrin … Continue reading My internet is intermittent

  no longer listening the waves have taken back the coast road crumpled, the grids of engineers loosed salt falling from hand rails the pontoon crane thrown against the waylaid wreck, now dawdles hinged of broken jaw rock bucket dangling, the creek escaping releases a resinous flash towards greeting, tumbles brine together boiling froth spumes … Continue reading and the sea, the sea in coil

  These days I live with three cats or perhaps three cats live with me if I go out they are not pleased I am not in any way a cat person they think of me the fourth feline something warm to lie upon to open a door at their leisure making sure the fire … Continue reading Midnight at the Oasis

Realizing  it’s been six years a final hospital visit, the Catholic ward sitting in the lounge there, making a joke about the Jewish guy being in the wrong place before the fist of a different God. Should we have told him, but let it drift like the thin snow of morphine drizzling over when to … Continue reading Splitting Wood with Terry

  The first time your arms get prickled by the rougher ends learning to wear a long-sleeved shirt and gloves helps. The binding scores into fingers when you lift and drag them, it’s better to push them downhill to a flatter place and collect them later. The heat makes you dizzy, lapsing sideways without going … Continue reading The Mercy in Hay

  I have loved, hungry as the fox a mad omnivore suck the marrow even a shadow holds that semibreve taste, shed skin before the wind gaze the still warmth in the snow crystalline hold the pose catch what you can hunter, we are all prey for the slow falling thunder of strike ignition from … Continue reading Brevity