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Above the empty doorway

This is just to say there is nothing left You have taken everything, there are 3 crumbs in the cupboard on the right if you're hungry

Yesterday, afterwards

This is just to say I have never felt like this before so please don't stop playing with my heart.

Black

heart like a crow this suffocation moves underneath my skin, charred charcoal. There was a time when this was all that could be seen, in a dread...

Emotional Intensity, Mild

In response to the new description of various films.

Lost

You found me, behind the sofa of my heart, which I didn't know I had lost in the first place. I thought me (I) was just here, as always. Never...

Fashion Show

Lucky in love
Cherry

The Most Annoying Boy In The World

Nothing Godd Ever Came Out Of War

After the war

A cloud of dust Settles On the land Like powdered diamond. The chink of armour Echoes Among the rocks; And the train's rhythmic Cough, cough Shakes...

To the beach

I stalked out to the beach, Slow-legged, weighted Equally with bucket and spade, And feeling sand trickle Into all the nooks of my sandals. I had a...

O dearest mole

And now for sonething completely different!

Dead languages

She is queen of the whiteboards, The straightened tables, The sow's ear books. Knower of knowledge, She cries upon being told That she studies a dead...

Returning home

There is an earthy taste to the air, Moist with dampened promise. There was no food, this morning, In the pantry, and my footsteps Printed the...

Bitterly

I hate you, dear heart, My beloved enemy knows How to make us part Our ways, in your eyes it shows.

About the politics

We lay on the grass, Yellowed with summer, jaundiced, we Watched the polished hearse Of winter slide in silently. Katharine: This is just to say-...

Past the gates

What is a word you'd use For me, for arms braced Against the windowframe? You take a compliment, Tired voice breaking heavily, And not from impending...

Again already

Watching re-runs of Sepia tinted movies, Prepare, beware, Play the game- Not you, me. Your suit is stained Red on white. Don't get wine, rain, Whine...

Rethink

Can you rethink That insult, slapped, Slicing apples mechanically, Chilled at my indifference. Add six zephyrs, stir Anti clockwise, freeze In the...

Not quite comfort

I think the glass distorts The shadows on your wrists. Perhaps I am wrong, but The same shadows are deep In the folds under your eyes, And it's...

I could lie to you.

I hate lying to you. I could say this: I know. Look, see all the ways in which You'll carry on without me. Don't cry. The trial is tomorrow, unless...

Fairytale beginning

The bitter sting of tears in my eyes wakes me. It might be symbolic of how I live now, to wake With last night's weakness crystallised on my cheeks,...

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