October Morning It’s never this dreary in a dream – raining cold and leaves down, a slow moving mood finally coming to life, its weight pulling us, staggering us under its heaviness,...

      Shooting Stars Stars were a matter of faith, star of wonder, star of light, till one August night when she walked with a boy down a Gloucestershire lane, and he told her star...

                            Hellbeareen   Murder Bear liked to disguise himself as the ghost of a small boy when it was...

      Zippo The jaw cracks wide like a sun-drunk lily, a gasp of steel in my talon hand as it reveals a puckered gullet. I thumb the flint trachea till it coughs up blue flame orange...

    The Boy I think maybe I do want romance – seeing it in the boy’s hair espresso dark, dirty, pulled back from his brow, the luck of his youth in the sweeping stroke he takes of the soft...

    Hansel   When I wake I look like the wild child of Borneo, freestyle and newly created each day. Roll me in your arms when I wake you, a plasticine boy; a malleable, morphing creature,...

      Widower dutifully he follows the dog as it shuffles and shits its way down the street in turn he picks up every piece medicine makes the dog shit profusely medicine keeps it...

      Amway I hadn't seen the girl in years she had lost a lot of weight since then, and her virginity as well told me she lost it to a man she met in Mexico her virginity, I mean the...

    Seven 1. Some pretty little boy tried to get fresh with me in a bathroom once (just once), I was sat, drifting softly, legs apart on the edge of the bath when he shut the sterile door,...

    Miss Atomic Bomb Twelve men died on the thirteenth, fifteen on the fourteenth. I suppose that makes fifty four, all things considered. Red bricks and razor wire, my love. And grey dust...