This is a fragment, scribbled into the sand and light slab of miracles we call a phone. I’m sitting in a waiting room in the hospital while my youngest son is assessed by a paediatrician. My wife is in the … Continue reading Thinking in an Emergency Ward
Fall to his knees And cry for the taste of leaves Deliberate in their measurement of time This is a fantasy of cascades masquerading As waterfalls and lenses chiming Painted cathedrals and a beautiful gathering in the gutter. Needles and … Continue reading Cascades Masquerading
Bring me warmth and rain To whet the parched earth Of thirst. Let my ears Discover your Voice in the waves. Give my heart Your metronome tidings For this green instant Continue reading Dawn Prayer
A handsome sunrise came before The path upon the mountain shore Bejeweled my senses to a halt As though this ground cursed by a fault Was lost to me for all this sin And happiness could not begin To run … Continue reading Handsome Sunrise
As close as I could Then left you at the trailhead For that Last Journey Continue reading Last Journey Haiku
Lord of the plains, walking three inches above the grass placed wheat and barley by his skin just to feel it try and hide held leaves in his hands and made no sound when his feet were taken legs were … Continue reading Shackles of Ghosts
There is a field surviving without me These worthy footsteps in the maize And a castle ruin near a hospital Where an old man scrabbled In the dirt for a cigarette butt I am standing near trees Like a deer … Continue reading Ghosts step into my heart
Softened, and wandering, skinks are hiding in dusty crevices limestone and the invite of a path I never walked I am three heartbeats from fleeing wander the earth, these paths I abandoned Grow my hair too long my nails too … Continue reading My Impregnable Perch
We are not certain – we never seem to be these days. Somewhere in the measure of time between adolescence and adulthood all that brash self-confidence ebbed away and we longed to be the thing we always railed against – … Continue reading Advice for the Dying
I can’t count you anymore Can’t tally the aching moments Whose edges have knitted into scar tissue That desperate grief is a distant valley and a time blanket, left in a perfect date Beneath a surreal sky, where lawns remain … Continue reading Lassitude
A season fell, like an absence felt in the place on a wall where a picture was placed for no sunlight to fallAllowed is not the same as polite Old men played songs at me Three decades ago, and any … Continue reading Cloudshadow
Airy and how much more free she felt before the intractable nonsense of boys and their promises idiot lyrics spoken as poetry walking at night and glancing behind or the forest in the day safer, to degrees Slate fell from … Continue reading Slate fell from the Church Roof
Maybe he came back as the mosquito I slapped from my arm, or the ants I stepped on before I could stop myself on the trail. Maybe he visited me as a glimmer of sunlight in the first moment after … Continue reading His haunting of my senses
The melody of fallen grass, gathered now a staccato thrum of diesel and the rumours spread by crickets and katydids What would you do with a ticking clock poised above you? Don’t touch me now, it still hurts just watch … Continue reading a life above glass
Blaze of Obscurity 