Train   You’d have thought that my journeying   from Telford to London would be enough time   to read these poems to darn a jumper   to stare out the window;...

      My Cat is Sad because the late September sun she tracks across the duvet’s hollow fibre tundra marks a downturn into winter weight. because the moon lies drowning in her water...

      Call from Hadassah How was the Safari? It was amazing, giraffe and zebra and those jumpy things we couldn’t identify so called them gazantelope. What’s your hotel like? It’s...

      from THE POETRY OF ERIC B. ESCHELAS The Book “Come, wet book, dearest receiver of little gifts. I didn’t believe her when she said you would lift the world a little closer. “I...

      Grand-Great Born old as fairytale, I believed, villages lived in the broken throated burr of your voice Seamstress I heard the tall tale of the needle, carelessly dropped, that...

    I For assuming that I am the most important person in the human race, the gods have announced demotion of my I to lower case. i have not been told when this will take place, but by stating...

      the garden of gethsemane i can taste the first of a few scotches i think two weeks away from a job a man can get too used to freedom but one day back can strip it all away and...

      What's the Time, Mister Wolf? a short fairy tale one night, at the Lime Tree Palace, foul rascals stormed the Mandarin Gates guarded by the Pith soldiers who were wet with...

      Howler Monkey The other two were cracked, Their braincase burst by slips of steel, So those I didn't buy. But you, your skull Is still intact, A smooth confection, done In by a...

      St Theresa at American Malls or Angels and Popsicles It’s a crescent moon there, but only for quick seconds. It gets drunk up like a quick libation by the storm clouds. See, the...