Gently

Just my normal routine...

Down the Phoneline-

My mother read me poetry as a last resort. She spoke of snowdrops, a great white land of nodding heads on tiny stilts. she fed them through the mouthpiece one by one like lines of-

Not a Mathematician

I am not a mathematician. I have never been able to see the equations, laid inside your skull like symbols drawn on water. But sometimes, I have seen the oceans move inside your pupil,

Naptime Five Hundred #1: Samantha Seager

You probably don’t know who Samantha Seager is, do you. Get a grip.

Transition 3

Everything has place and purpose, its the balance that’s awry. Its in relationship to spirit that man will finally rely.

Spring Raindrops

A tanka about spring.

Robots

Such sights to see with so blind eyes; So many sounds to hear through these shrunken ears;

An End-of-Empire Feeling

From an article by Sanjiv Bhattacharya on a swingers convention in New Orleans entitled "Sodden and Gomorrah" (GQ April 2007)

That Girl Knows Me

As I weeble, trying to pick a direction to face on a freak free-seat day in the busiest station under London, she stares with hazel lasers, ignores my apology, gets me twitching "she knows me/she know

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