We Are

We chase shadows inbetween sunlight

Mother Care

You can't live with your mothers, and you can't live without them.

Rear View Mirror

An old life behind but still in view

Fill me in

Dear Edinburgh, I will write you no poems to tell you how alarming familiarity is. No ways to tell about corner shops, castles, print piles guttering.
Cherry

Didn't we have a lovely time

For Grandfather Brien Darling you are dying, your lungs are bags in treetops, your skin is bringing up antique bruises, you are saying ‘didn't we have a lovely time' on repeat,
Cherry

The cat waits by the fridge feet for the ring of porcelain

And as the evening tips the light out the cup, and the wall hues bruises, she blunt thumbs on the lamp switches shoes, bends to stroke the tabby cat, her back burred in clock hands.
Cherry

In the fires of dementia

It’s official; Mum loves it when I stroke her cheek. The moment the front of my index finger touches her skin, her eyes close, her shoulders relax, her chin quivers slightly,

Womans Passion is soon Over

Panting, breathless, head thrown back in a torrent of selfless passion, she wanted me and now has opened up to the dark side within her, saying things that she dare not say to

Divided loyalties (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Father's, son's, love, regret and hope. One family.

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