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Cold across time
Cold across time. Slow and tired on iron, on bone. Winter harrows across the core and frost gnaws the coldest feet. It’s cold across time in the elder…
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Beatville
Wild honey dripping down the door. What a fiery nest in the eve which not a single monkey one of us cared about. We’d spent an orange afternoon…
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That never thing
We will never dance in Dublin That must now be true. 30 years of a withering dream behind the scenes, one sentimental sigh at a time, blowing away the…
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Fading away
Everything bleaches in antiquity. The bluest eyes whiten in time. Colours dream the dream of eternity. Farewell the pert and the pretty. Red lips pinken…
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Frozen Fountain
The floodlights of Argos car park stream through the icicles on the fountain in the park. It’s a cold, exciting air - moon inspired. There’s a quivering…
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Kerouac’s London
Swatting flies and pushing prams on a smug London slither where they sell vegan burritos and bagels, and ‘soul food’ but it’s more jazz food all flash…
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Commuter Train
The trees are empty The train glides along slowly like an oil spillage to a black mist of trees, Bare carriages reveal but a few faces One is cold and…
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I ate the world
As a youngster I ate the world. I ate clover green washed and imprisoned by rain I ate all the light in the stars that fell on the winter grass I ate…
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Judder
When you’re deep in love birds come closer as they did when we met in 1996 the breeze, as if tempered by the hot rings of our sweetness, juddered less…
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Funny House
I can’t recall the first thought or what images came into my head but when I heard my new travel kettle in full operation it made me snigger then laugh…
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Thursday
An exploratory drift through nature, the psyche, and other corner-of-the-eye realms.
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