Xenophon

A classic horse race

There are No Happy Endings

Staring in my window again, The glass was wet because of the rain I've just lost a piece of my soul Once in diamonds, now in frail charcoal I only ask for you to return
Cherry

Track 10: Mind Your Own Business by Delta 5

200 words.
Cherry

Candida

Call off the multi-billion dollar hunt for slivers of Martian ice, for abductees and floating rings of lights. The aliens are in my cunt. Inexplicable ectoplasm,

Splitting The Ego With Mary

Among my mother's pansies, down the ribbony path, squirrelled behind the privet, she slipped down her underwear. Like a cat, watching the pointing finger instead of its subject,
Cherry

A Blackbird Burial

I found you on the pavement Hot, dry and ousted Amongst the litter Carefully I lifted you A watery, wormy, fishy bread mix You got your eyes open, blackbird

Long Exposure

A vessel filled A cup of water Not a drop spilled Your only daughter Dip a toe in See if its; warm enough To go in I don't know yet If the seed I'm sowing Will continue growing

It's lonely at the top

The dusty,lovely rhetoric Of outdoor living Hacking, packing, hoeing, sowing Acknowledge the poignancy Of community The bonds of dirt, and what grows in it What comes of it?

Reverberations

The consequences of invasion.

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