Autobiography

I redrafted it, but I am not sure it is improved in the shaping process...

Early on this morning
My back began to ache
So I took a little aspirin
To take the pain away

Later on this morning
My back was getting worse
So I took two paracetamol

Where we spend our night times pushing our glowing limbs
beneath bed sheets and worrying that the person
next to us, hates our bodies...

And then it was goodbye

tell me sweet dreams
one more time
and I’ll be forever dreamin

Can't think of one little thing

I didn’t know what to expect driving to the therapy center. When Mrs.

for my mother who passed away suddenly and very tragically on the 28th of January, aged 67. God Knows my Dad sister and I will miss her so very much.

The Knowledge of a Koi Carp – Part 3

When twilight crept forward, I drew strength from its ancient song.

Times are a changin..

How to remove, undo,
Get rid of accretions
To tend the garden of yourself
Slough the dead flakes of skin

Substance becoming less
But remaining, still remaining
Just enough to stay planted

Disney Excursion- Animal Kingdom

Friday- February 3,2012- Bonita Springs, Florida

In any case one thing was for sure this was not the Paris of Sartre, Hemmingway, Miller or the Beat generation, this was a savage little pocket of hell that I could endure no longer.

Marie de France's 'Bisclavret' howls at the moon like a wolf.
'The Assistant' mutters to itself in Yiddish.
The window is full to the brim with stars,
and poems rise up like unanswered prayers.

I tell him the widow
next door, died last June.
‘I know,’ he tells me..

The decision to enter politics

December.
Stark and cold.
Bare trees
with Lowry limbs,
knuckled branches stretching
towards my frozen heart.

Will a grey sky look the same?

I am lost

The pages of eyelids

The first time my father took me to the library
I felt I had ingested a globe lamp

and it became a gob stopper, a bath pearl,