Something about butterflies

Always small rooms and square, white places, limited possessions gatheredup, unpacked and packed again every few years. You betsomeone probably …

Tea leaf

The tea leaf swirlsout the spout, birthedinto the mug – it’s amazingto see how it’s grown,I’m so proudI could cry, …

Drive

Drilling into the barnyard dark, probingout curves like a dentist diggingdown into decay, workingup the other side of the valley, …

Mouth of the Mine

The maw of the old mineshaft reminded meof the stove-in mouthof an end-of-the-line lush,left gaping there glistening by bored kids, …

Scene in the Gents

I watch you working the body with a boxer’s predatory rhythm, ravaging that tin box like werewolf a fairytale maid, …

Water Glass Moth

You cling to my finger like a newborn.The same weight that clogged your engines and draggedyou down to drown now …

Rockpools

By the seathe urge to screamdrains awaylike the tidefrom the rockpools. Of courseit will return againbut for now you can …

Cow

Machines liftyour hulking massweightless, O wingless angel slityou giveand give and give. You area huge and creakingoaken tankof red grape …

Your Relationship

Yes, it is broken, but isn’t the world just a bric-a-brac of busted parts, layer on layer of confused movement, …

AIRSTRIKES

I watched the last of yesterday bleed off the river to the tones of trumpet and cymbal; the reeds were …

love poem

Gas stove tickssmell roasted coffeebury onion bulbsin garden soil holding fingerswearing jacketsthink of nothingeat roast potatoes black caramel cruston a …

The Blacksmith

the hammerthe horseshoe the iron the heat the barrel the water the rushing release the strain the brow the eyes …

Fire

I heave up another lungful of gulped down stars and margarita moon (behind: a guitar plinks and ripples and twangs, …

Hayfever Sketch

At that moment in the long grass, or weeds, or whatever they were – but long, long, two feet at …

Buckshot

She took her things that lined the shelves, they left holes in the dust like buckshot in a stag’s flank. …