The Finalists   One of them has the sensation that her breasts need milking though it is decades since she lactated, a green lance grows through her, she feels skin-covered but no more human ...

The Habit of Pigeons They returned when they hacked the tree off at its wide, ancient knees, leaving fat heels bulging into the cracked concrete. They returned because old men emptied shopping bags...

 The Tracks of My Hands What if I said I knew from the beginning That to capture A molecule of your fire Within a whisper Would be my greatest triumph And as I begin to release The fragments Of the...

North Berwick Law   Climbing the volcano’s Constipated gut, a basalt core That still resists the everyday Seduction of the rain Smoothing and dissolving.   Half-way up asking Why are we...

Belemnite: The wind lashes my cheeks and strands of untamed hair escape from my scarf. False footed by the incline, I lose my nerve and shelter by the rocks. But Tommy strides the beach, his eyes...

At Land’s End we take turns at squeezing our heads and the milepost into the viewfinder. After the shutter’s chink we follow that tiny, white rectangle as it blinks off on, somewhere behind the lens...

Bang on Summer for Candi   Girl, you look like summer to me Girl, you bang on summer to me But wait!   I am a smoky town shadow A lonesome shape A sad beak pecking the earth   The way...

Brainer This blanched anteroom’s irksome, A shrine to Edison ’s trails With cats and dogs. Squishy seals, a queasy camera-lens. Crabbedness of scalding muscle. Water-salt that sopped electrodes Is...

Kitchen oh my love in a saucepan of soup we tryst again sell me the basis of frost, say 'you and your fonts can freak out on pot' i expect you may be right. violence begins in the home oh dear with...

Overnight   An exquisite architect steals through the window tiptoes across our borders and creates a beaded shanty home hung with dew.   But you shudder at such perfect cunning, slam the...