my seven hours as a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman shake a stickthrow a jabsodomize a garbage can. peel an orangelop off your foot with a banjoplay the cymbal with your...

TIME AND SPACEFeelings in humans are like time in space: the former moves while the latter stays.Time is forever. Space doesn’t live that long – it requires updates. Though imprescriptible, time is...

Do What’s Good For You “Dirty seaweed,” mother says. “Put it down and eat your burger.”~ ~ ~ ~ ~Lunchtime BlackShe sitsonly for an hour.But,there is no golden revelationat the bottom of a snatched...

trash for someone i've seen twiceWhy am I not allowed to just gather your face into my hands and pull you close whenever I see you? I would melt all over the floor. Solids to liquids, liquids to...

COLLATERALWhat goes through my mindcoughing dirtbreathing dust.Soft swoon of her bedtime minutesgiving way so sudden.Nothing at firstbut tinnitus crescendoswelling my headas I come to realising.A...

The Penis ThinksIt is a mistaketo thinkthe penis has no muscleor a brain it wasn’t working outyou stopped loving meand my penis knew before I did.* Alex Keegan says "I'm a full-time...

Shit Happens Pervading the airIn class todayFingers pointing every way The chief suspectProtesting his innocenceWas led away But still the same smellEven worse,Who could it...

Grandfather Plays Polo In his greasy jodhpurs with the batwing thighsGrandpa dreams of horses – we hear him snort and twitch.His deck-chair’s tattered canvas cups his awkward frame.All round...

WorkshopNothing is in its proper place. That is, we have to ask: Where are the proper places for all the tools at our disposal? Signs, labels are taped on drawers and cupboards. Still we walk back...

Kezia Green – who many you will recall from earlier this summer with her poem about Amy Winehouse staying in a caravan – is back, this time she is...Feeding ducks with DadFour disobedient...