No Screaming while the Bus is in Motion It’s true that I pulled a wardrobe door from the firewood pile and painted a sign: Parker’s Ghost-Hunting Agency in dripping red letters and nailed it to the...

JakeThe Jack Russellwith a yellow pencil trapped in his jawruns between our argument - we stopour mouths, you and I, caught by the sight of him as he paws, bows and scribbles on the linoTo you...

Natural History Museum I wish Lord let me be nervous again, as confidence makes them wary,and please make me meek — as if it could make them love me —but for now I want to shout Fuck and my tone may...

At the Heart of ThingsRemember when your mother was taken ill-and was rushed anonymously to the hospital?and in the waiting room your older brother -cried and shivered like glass.But you felt like...

The quiet room You wince under the waits’ added load.Squashed seating arrangements anticipatebreasts squeezed into scanners.We are blind to fresh flowers, pastel curtains and...

examinationall I remembered after was the distancefrom the doorway to the instrumentand light from the enormous semi-circular windowsshining off the parquetunevenly, in the places it was...

LandingIt’s in the brittle light that forces your eyesto crack, squint for cover, that you knowthe day’s debate about a woman eatingherself to death, will not be resolved; when the crease of...

WoodsSliding through archesof elms sunshineyellow and warm as honey.Moss crawls over mudstonewhile squirrels skip around tree stumps.Imagine to be a sea gullin blue wind pushingair through your...

Home Remedy for a Broken HeartShe downed one bottle of Sauvignon,
took two double shots of  vodka,
then gulped back three small G and Ts.Four Bloody Marys and her hair smelled of sickbut five...

Staving off a Natural Disaster    And if by some miraclethe sun rose again at noonand we started to fly backwards,the earth around the moon, what then?Would we see that particular...