White coffee sweet hot the smile that serves it remembers my name at 7.30 I am vague and unwilling to wake and my conversation is dry We’re all just addicts Continue Reading →

My position is imprecise Your greater momentum makes for a consistently inaccurate measurement To even the close observer, I am obscured, distorted by magnetic proximity They may try to establish Continue Reading →

Low lampshades like crinoline skirts Orange walls Two men talking over a beer at the bar glancing at two men talking over wine The men talking over beer are discussing Continue Reading →

Andrew in the dark in the bath Apple trees scrape against the window Emily in the study candlelight flickering on her gold ring A blank page and a row of Continue Reading →

I’m addicted to your desperate rhythms, I rise and fall with your breath When you stop I stop, breathless. I’m starving for your neatness, your careful fingers sewing buttons with Continue Reading →

Today we learned about endings How to create a lingering sense of full mouth and belly, the lasting sting of a slap, unvanquished, unyielding   How the shortest letter might Continue Reading →

“Works with obvious meanings cease to be art” he said, yet we must not be obscure for obscurity’s sake the meaning should be clear, flowing just beneath the surface Like a Continue Reading →

I once sat in your lap dragged my fingers across your face hooked a thumb on your lip then left you alone in the dark   I insist that you Continue Reading →

I’ve started narcissistically seeing myself in everything you do maybe just my imagination maybe true   It’s become almost impossible for us to write things that aren’t somehow about each Continue Reading →

My father doesn’t like surprises We tried to throw him a fiftieth birthday He found out and picked a fight with me and mum and Aunty Prue in front of Continue Reading →