Mars Oil

Harmonium

cat/caught

all those dreams
oceans

the most hideous scream
tearing at the curtains

demon demon demon demonstrate

When I saw you talking to my mother I expected a novelty embrace. Your mind is full of art stars and mood music. Creativity claps then collapses at the first sign of industry.

We spin to a magnanimous karma and your ripe cheeks and tumbling hair have poured into my life at the most opportune moments. I remember when you fasted for my father.

berries

berries

a lunar eclipse

There are parallels, I know, circles and shapes that bespeak an elegant geometry.

Tell me how you were delivered.

Tell me how they brought you home.

Tell me how they nursed you.

A decaying mansion sits on the water while the sun fires the hillside sound of laughter in the garden.

cat/cat/boat/harmonium

Cell Crust

Sprout Nook

Angel Dust

Granite

Magpie'd (For Greg Evason)

not only
is she
dismissive
of my
perception
of the world's
constituent parts
but she seems
to want to
impose the matter
on me though
cold outside &
wet for june
with train tracks
running behind the
out patient's clinic
how easy to escape
the margins
without even
bothering
to inform the
pharmacist
magpies
gently
hallucinating
summer

It Didn't Take Long

OK the quickest comeback since Ali, or Sinatra. I couldn't stay away. A blogger has to blog regardless of quality, reputation, blood sugar level. Afterlights forever!

A Bit o' News

I probably won't be blogging for a while. I think it's come to the end of the road for now. I'm going to keep afterlights open and I may return to it at some point, but, for the time being, I'll only be publishing in journals, where possible of course, and will keep interested readers informed through Facebook. So thanks for following and cheerio for now. It's been fun!

Starry Rhymes

I've got work in this exciting anthology of Ginsberg tributes. Go buy yourself a copy!

Jah Flood

A piece at Moria, with two more in the sequence following:

Amazon Jungle Poem

plan
plan
plant

ant
planet

plant
planet

plane
plane
plaint

ant
plane

taint
plan

tonsure

t t t t t t t
t t t t t t
t t t t t
t t t t
t t t
t t
t

Birthday Poem for Shona

shona
shone,

shin
shining,

shy
yet

shin
shining,

shone.

S*H*O*N*A

shingle shone

long gone gangling
gone

for SEAN,
for JOHN,
for SEAN JOHN.

Shin shiner

S*H*O*N*A S*H*I*N*A

Sheen Shimmy / Shun Shimmy / Shine Shimmy

for tunes
fortunes

in futures
for shona

fortunes
fortuitous
fort u itis

fortunes for shona in futures
for shining

four tons of fortunes

for shona
infutures


for SHONA in future******************* to SHINE********************

"cut and shut" - for Colin Herd

A minimalist sequence of mine at the lovely BlazeVox.

t,horn,c,orner,s

pinion onion opinion

rice crumb microbe

InterNaPwoWriMo over at ach/och

a bandit dawn


abandon


a band at dawn


abandoned