travel

Windows/Rain

When I was a nipper I used to love to watch the rain rip across, along the car window as …

Leo’s last day

-We do the shit, waiting for the sun, bam, easy life – Leo sits on two water kegs – Fuckin’ …

1st draft extract #1

I unloaded our little camping stove, which was dented and covered in spatterings of dried tomato sauce and dust, and banged …

A Poem For An Old Laptop

You were always petite, with your thirteen inch screen sometimes I had to squint to catch the fine print, though …

Song For O

Take it you said, note between your two forefingers crumpled, mauve, still alien after eight months. I know you got …

LOVERS’ DEAFNESS

He’s close enough to sink into the swirling galaxies and worlds of her pores, close enough to struggle in the whirlpool and …

EVERY MOMENT

I spied it in your eyes, caught grey and wistful and dangerous spluttering I pulled, pulled as if trying to …

TEEPEE

This teepee could be a circus tent home to paint lacquered clowns, off-duty, brutishly short, with square jaws and raw …

CAMPFIRE

We were sat ’round what seemed to me a pirate’s skirmish, the booming cannon balls of hot ash popped in …

CITY

The streets are rivers which we navigate like short-sighted salmon, picking an uneasy path, making slow progress- faces rushing upwards …

Regular John

Known not to rhyme every line but when handling mandarins he damages egos of show-boating masters toting silk-cut toking cloaked …