A Journey

a slug of movement meandering slowly across the sidewalk

Bright

It did not matter, the impossibilities of the situation, the hopelessness, the futile wishes none of it.

The Fall

Falling Falling Passing nothing Touching nothing ever again but empty space and air Rushing, deafening air And the ground eight miles down And I know that I’m dying Legs running

James and the Bum Valley Rap

A murder, a betrayed king, a wild moose and a golden netsuke. Odd happenings in the Bum Valley

First Place

I had to wipe a baby’s bum the first time today. It was my first baby too. My first girlfriend gave birth to this beautiful boy. First time we’d made love had done it too.

Frankenstein

The scientist took off his labcoat, Struggling into his rusted chinos, And his assistant in the Unit Sipping a cappuccino by his side Glanced at the burning test-tubes
Cherry

Scrap 76

Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
Cherry

coke haiku set

all the pain vanished, the heart's shadow lit with sun... the soul's door opened the night opens up before me like a regal road of creation a young blonde beauty becomes a Picasso in

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