How It Works What I throw out into the world I gather first as checkerboards of sunlight scribbled on my arms. I gather them as nourishment like a man drinking from a well he’s...

      Fear Julian knows the secret to fear. It’s legs. He’s secretly smug about figuring this out even though he’s only seven. ‘More people are scared of dogs than other people. More...

      The Bookcase The bookcase has been replaced with another bookcase The new thing is made in Sweden and assembled in the wet dreams of code breakers and psychiatrists I try all...

    Celebrity   Lips part and we see the dark whole of your mouth, empty and ivory framed. Vacant-sign eyes , cogs lie static behind your sugar skull. Yet we try like children on a...

    River Creature   I grew from a trickle down from the sky, Slowly but surely, Carved out a bed Using sand, pebbles, Mud and rocks Anything I could Grab hold of With my big watery...

      Dentist Lying on a vinyl chair, I listen to music. The melody depicts a forest in this sanitized room. While I’m opening my mouth, a squirrel is crunching on an acorn, leaves...

      Biography     When mum was a girl she had no shoes: sprinting through stubble bloodied her toes.   Tell me a story that closes in sleep   A playground...

    * Your cardigan’s hem Stitches ruined without touch Jump off the cliff now. * Reading Macbeth in italics The characters are tilted and The witches by my side. * Ice cubes on my water...

      Hole Tell your secrets to a hole in the ground facing north for then the earth will swallow up your secret for all time it shall enter into the memory of the soil and the rivers...