Lessons in Intonation

I am learning what the birds are about and how to reply to them. It is simple: pretend you’re married

Dreamer

I became lost in my words they lifted me, they guided me, they whispered everything and I know about who I was and who I would become, they brought order out of the chaos but they couldn’t erase the

hearing the sub-text

Don’t get me wrong. Don’t get wrong me.
Cherry

16 Guitars

Your house Has lots of instruments, You show me the Steiner That your dad likes to play He should have been A professional. Your house Has 16 guitars, A silver dobro, A double bass.
Cherry

Coming and Going

A man's letter to his deceased wife
Cherry

Locus delicti

("place of the crime") Heavens boy, don't you think to clean your coat? Never mind. Get a bath. Those ears must be sprouting potatoes. An hour late! Did you talk to strangers? What's got

ROSES

ROSES There’s roses growing against my wall, They range in size from large to small. Their colour is a sight to behold, They’re making a statement, being quite bold.
Cherry

What possesses someone to get Myra Hindley and Ian Brady portrait tattoos

on their shins? Barely a wafer of skin there to cushion you, that'd cane, surely. And how nice that Brady gets a look in! So often Hindley's Helga 'do, bleached

Three Bean Sambuca (re-edit May 11 2008)

Another poem about a bar... edited may 11 2008

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