The Collie I Never Had I wanted to adopt a collie and I didn’t copy that from that from anywhere I swear my mother always said if we got a dog it would have to be a collie which...

Vettriano Life I was truly alone like any romantic pigeon-holed into an edgy corner happy hour oysters rare rib-eye steak lush red wine I danced to jazz he tumbled whiskey with cut glass lustre I...

    “It’s all about your embouchure” My Dad led our brass band on the euphonium; Mum did percussion from the kitchen, on the saucepans with the odd kebab skewer. Me and our Mark were...

      Stink Spirit You have found a way to repress it: That human waste dumped in you, Stewing in its own juice. The dull pain Of being almost grounded — A slowed mutant, inflamed. A...

      The Balloonist _________________________________________________________ --(__________________________________________________________)====== My breath threads and swells...

      The Pigeon’s Egg I walked into town asking for a sign, not, you understand, the way to the post office, but a portent so obvious, like the big word on the hillside: HOLLYWOOD....

I'll Write That on the Board My new sales job in janitorial supplies was not going so very well.  I heard about the Lester Goodman seminars and thought 'what have I got to lose?'  So here I am...

      The Office Keyboards slork and chirrup their way through diets of words. The striped cough of the printer punctuates the settling of sludge-mugs on the woodskim tops. Everything...

      I am going to disappear      (After  César Vallejo) I am going to disappear one evening when the moon has risen, though the sky might not be dark. I have seen this. Looking out...

      invisible wars The years of my parents hurt their lives already lived giving birth to me crush to the point that I am once again dissolved in the darkness before life to the...