Cherrypicked stories
Pursuit
Hunted, by you, all over town, like debt collection was savage. Your hair. Your legs. Underpinned by wine, in overdraft bars. Name dropping, like breathing. Insecurity, laid bare.
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- 1136 reads
Images
Memory takes motion and freezes it. Each moment captured and held, there, a picture on the gallery wall. Here's where those moments will all end. Here's the last picture, where she turns
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- 1980 reads
this is how we would say goodbye
an acrostic fashioned from soba noodles spelling out s-e-e y-a with the first word being serendipity which was also a film starring John Cusack. Or- a capoiera sequence
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- 645 reads
Art will Save the World
200 words.
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- 3811 reads
The Summerhouse
In time, Manda managed to forget a great deal. But she would never forget those eyes.
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- 2093 reads
Tony
I stay where I am when I see Tony come into the bar, standing by the optics with a tea towel in my hand. Tom turns his back and starts polishing cutlery. He's worked here for longer than I have.
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- 1059 reads
Week
Imagine if the sky cracked open like a cheap plate and through the cracks seeped tiny coach-horses topped by even tinier men and the tinier men held aloft scripted banners
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- 629 reads
Gibraltar Nights
Dulce et Decorum est pro patria bibere
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- 1141 reads
At Whipps Cross
Hung over like a broken bridge, in this florescent rectangle. I’m gazing at a ceiling, designed by a minimalist My head screams, my eyes drip. The caffeine addicts,
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- 1152 reads
There is no Epiphany
200 words.
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- 2037 reads
G
I am on my way to visit Paul the carpenter, previously Paul the mental health worker, and before that, Paul the volunteer at a Fijian NGO.
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- 847 reads
i'm not dreaming
This text is a dance piece to premiere in 2008.
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- 1003 reads
visitation
This was written for a photo-book of concentration camps.
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- 905 reads
lying in wait
A poem written for a photo-book of abandoned places.
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- 877 reads
parametric
If I had a coat of arms, this text would be inscribed upon it.
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- 909 reads