When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? Shards of metal lay in a tumult of frozen earth. Crossing the field felt like an unrealistic expectation of adventure that would cause no distress. Everything … Continue reading Battleship in the Field
“Apart from mountains, nothing,” he chants, A fresh alphabet, new doctrines. A sudden emptiness, like towns in China. Boat delayed, this empty plan broken like Dishes, (delicate, my wife’s fair hand). Electric wires hum through the night, Here, men learn … Continue reading The Saints in Hillocks
The way a formal land rises Images unsaturated, steps uneven, A thief in the river Each moment moderated by the somnolence of a ghost Who willed an Estateb of inadequacy Pale plastic, green carpet And a life summit happy enough … Continue reading Carrying Ghosts
Immediate and pointless yellow became a revocation of our cruelty A thousand bishops amassed beyond castles into the spokeshave of your scorn I stole a pebble from a cathedral rotting gentle and slow in a forest that was the graveyard … Continue reading Suddenly the Sunset
They have not disappeared. The forest is full of their voices. The sky is full of their thoughts. A pendulum sings for the silver leaves, as though the air was awash with canvas The chiming bells in Vienna weep and … Continue reading Verdigris Prisons
Pointless stubble unwatered The irrational joy of hate Everything is a blue skin Still. I will cut into the sensibilities Of each landslide, test a path Of limestone and stars Always a reason Sometimes guided, sometimes hidden Water in the … Continue reading Istrian Water
This is a call along a golden path Signalling the virtue of cold black fruit She is not feeling a victim of truth Reparations fall at my feet and laugh Continue reading Reparations
I am a frail shelter, for a little flicker of light a flame as tiny as a distant star waiting for the morning, that is my fate I feel an abdication creep upon the night watching with eyes the size … Continue reading Field and Bunker
Butterflies upon your feet Lace, her intimacies’ garden Strange, uneven cobbled street A path for whispering ghosts to greet Angels waiting on church spires Mountains’ slumbering guardian Altered place no requires An escape from these glass fires Witches chanting in … Continue reading Butterflies upon Your Feet
The grass is a likeness of the Queen Beneath The Stars Created meadow permissions. Certain bounds are an everlasting omen Hour of chaos is folding against the children’s game. East of a down near the sun, I am often given … Continue reading Queen Beneath The Stars
Darkstar in the night, Meaningless shape in the sky, Guiding us to dark. Mystery and murder merge, Unseen light beyond our reach. Continue reading DarkStar
Politics is the division of the people under the guise of unity mammoths or fish, skin and bones and cold rivers that kill dreams Walk in the snow or die in the desert for a cause and a figurehead below … Continue reading Decorative Emptiness
Feet barely on a lawn, here lies the snicker of the executioner’s blade sphinxes wrestle with verdigris ornaments and cloth fails me I descended into the earth at night and crossed between bones and cobbles never paid enough heed and … Continue reading Palaces are Mine to Pay
Staring at the closed eyes of the absurd whispering of the oceanShe tells me “This is okay. ‘This is your first destiny.”And I fall into her emerald arms in the great beyond, hateful below all measure,so fast, so far away.What … Continue reading Her Emerald Arms
Came as a dream, How the bomb fell And brought the end of everythingBright the sun, swept the floor And could not find rain clouds Hollow like a blue skySomething’s wrongEverything’s wrong, but could not wake Just lay trapped in … Continue reading Hollow like a Blue Sky
Blaze of Obscurity 