Friday, 22 February 2013

Friend

She is beautiful
She reaches out to meet his love
They are unshakeable
She takes her hands around his arms
She is alive with his prescience
She is herself irrefutably she
She is strong and exploring brave
She is writing writing
Encouraged by herself and led by knowing

Thursday, 21 February 2013

its a slow escape
its a humble move
it sees finitude
i saw you on the sofa next to a giant white duck
talking about unbearable intimacy
looking at the paper
your handwritten words scattered and abrupt
the words you didn't read out loud
the traffic on the other side of the hill
the telegraph wires shimmying in the wind
slow techno
ivor cutler
last hours of a machine
the clouds moving
hands warming
tea sofa hat
its a double edged spoon you carry
to scoop
or provide

when you need to get out
squeezing out between the fence posts
(without alarms set off)
is careful work

Tuesday, 19 February 2013


Theres a fate here that’s fit for explaining everything but me
When the words fit it’s the machine that clutches and pushes
It’s the pen
I cling to the movement of the engine
The pace of its step
The rhythm of this pacemaker
Out of synch with my blood
I push on whats outside
It pushes straight back
As if we are disappointed with one another
And I cling to our baby
This illness
That makes each of resist until taught
We both ache with the lax and pull of anger's tack
Yielding despair in automata.

Sunday, 10 February 2013


The inside is knotted
Your neck is in the arm
You put it all on at once
Two quick
Back track
Put the inside on first
Lign it up to keep you warm
Come on
Find that china bowl
And out you go