The Source
Ode to a Nearly Beloved
"As though through tracing paper, I etch your features onto faces of strangers I’ll never know."
Pink Tulips
"I want our story to be one of fields of flowers and quiet sunsets. I
do not wish for violence."
Tangerine
"Picking apart the peel of the ripest fruit, prying open its flesh."
The Saintly Lives of Students
"There, there(‘s) a graveyard in the college where drunk students in funeral suits smile through tombstone teeth."
Eve
Go, then - O girl, O derivative of...
Eve’s Laugh
Humour me with golden words...
Stalked by a bear at high table
perhaps next time i will kill the bear
Lost City
The undulating sands stretch out,
a vast expanse, sweltering
under the gaze of the sun
as it burns its way across the sky,
dunes flowing like currents,
tides on...
Half Brit No Brit
'I hear you loudly in your echo chamber: ‘We’re in the most tolerant land of them all’
But the least racist is still racist.'
49 Years of Matrimony
Agnes need not have walked in on them fucking to know what was going on.
Ghosts in the Attic
'Unpack-repack. That recurring dream that you only have in your Home Bed...'
In Truth
'Everything I told you
Came out untrue'
Time
'The clocks cry her name from
Outside the door;
Their hands are stiff and still.'
Changes by the River
'It doesn’t matter how stagnant we feel,
The seasons keep on flowing'
Be
"Travelling into
The sunset, a new cowboy ready to ride"
The Felling of Yggdrasil
"Worlds branch off like capillaries
From an oaken aorta"
Ten Days Troilus Waits for Cressida
"Above me, the Milky wheel turns round and round"
Number 19
'Walking along the Edgware Road
It's ten o'clock at night
I glance down at my phone amongst it all
And it's your name that glows in the light'
