Things My Brother and Sister Taught Me   That Brazil is the capital of Europe That triangles have six right angles That babies come from sharing soap That rows...

The Old Man in the House of Bone   He sits in his house in the dark wood in the house of bone in the dark, tangled wood at the wood’s centre where no paths lead where all the paths have been erased...

        30th July   We have eaten and loved and the sun is up, we have only to sing before parting: Goodbye, dear love. Basil Bunting We drank red wine out of mugs dressed...

        Aside at a Dinner Party Her husband died nine years ago, and still she isn’t over it. (Our host speaking of her mother.) As one, each of us falls quiet.    ...

    How it Is     Well I whistled as the wolf went down down in the water, and also I laughed. Right out loud. Like I used to  laugh, when I played games with my dad in the...

      / UNLOCKING   at night he disassembles himself unlocking the joints from their wet sockets he places them in ivory boxes   and in the morning, somehow I saw him eating...

      Storm Warning Uncanny light. Clouds taut as spoons. From my high window, the world is tuned to a canine pitch. A tree lurches in the wind, scribbling the wall with a scaffolding...

      Tartan She rubs the end of the cigarette around in the ashtray. She is alone at the bar, perched on a stool. Getting drunk won’t help. It will just complicate matters further....

    Glass Houses The gardener’s breath comes quick, her movements slow with fingers dry as moths she trims dead leaves and gathers blackened seeds then tests her grit, one finger in each...