Bread   Explore the way it rises from nothing, what this teaches about dignity. On the table of furrowed wood, knives coaxing butter out of sleep. I wonder how my father...

  This is exactly what I want This is exactly what I want: (though I didn’t know it) 5 inches of silence the recluse’s delicacy a softing down cold and geometry fretworking into a slow lattice...

    The Magnificat of Tears Your tears wash away damaging matter. They’re ocean compared to moist towelette, a swim in the sea rather than paddling; intensifiers of experience. Focus is...

    Mermaids “I have heard the mermaids singing each to each, I do not think they will sing to me.” -      T.S. Elliot, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock   I used to work with...

      Umbrellas ‘People who carry an umbrella can never...understand the moral significance of war.’ Mussolini This is you holding it out to catch the rain, as I run with a streaked,...

      Llanbwchllyn Lake White and yellow water-lilies framing sky upon its surface; sun and moon fragmented, swept off to the edges. Above in the heather a cluster of wild horses...

    The Water is Mad Ophelia in the water there are mad skies broken branches and heartache sorrow everywhere until we float and we do float on the cool pool of nothing to give up...

    Hearing Crickets Late 0n the Last Night of June for Ethna McKiernan Now the tumbrels of July hurtle near with scallops of heat, running fire not far away in Colorado, already this...

      Mall Stalker I hate people, all those people who are so happy right in your face? The fuck you people strolling through the plastic malls the world over, their tinny voices...

      The One that Got Away They said it was a slow day in personal fitness. They said it was a lorry going by. But when love walked in wearing his Tuesday suit The photocopiers...