TaxidermyHere is a city where buildings cramp,wattle and daub splits at the seam.Tram cables, phone lines cat’s-cradle tenements.Here is a monument; a mosaic scene. Tiles fall out like milk...

FEBRUARY, ETC… In a spate of windmills February becomes March and March (for such is the power of time’s silver thumb) becomes April April waves her blue wand, dashing winter’s hopes to the ground...

HotSmall suns, they bring the lightof Seville into my kitchen.Cut and slice them into moltenpieces, douse the glow, infusion. Stir them into mermeladaa pan of orange volcanosweet and tart as a...

AftershowThe fire of the show cools to content with the soft hum of the radioThe headlights will guide us home to our cold, hushed abodeYou asleep and me alone with the road and the stars and the...

Lovethey weresitting ata tabletoo smallfor theirmeals, tooclose togetherat a tabletoo small.she said, 'theonly waywe can lose,the onlyway we can lose this game is if one of us tries to...

Appropriately enough after the Winter Olympics, we start with an ice-hockey themed poem...WE WILL ROCK    puck drops    sticks hackrun of bladesthud on...

MermaidsDown on the nudist beach –Holding hands.Drumming up stories,Lies and fantasiesOf some neat country,Some, arcane hemisphereYou are hoping to take me toLate summer,When the air is fresherAnd...

Atlas of SignsFrom the valleypeople traveled,the bones of cattle staked like a gate.I sought the acerbic shadeof the manchineel treewhere sand cliffs dissolve into tideslike bronze idols or...

AtisshooThree months on from not living with his parents, and still no shag. The girl at the pub's club night seemed well promising though. Even borrowing the barman's felt-tip to scribble...

Spring BeautiesEach year I mark the stationary progressmade by a cluster of Spring Beauties,that at a distance are a bandof some religious sect arrayedin frail lavender gowns, leaningsouthward into...