An Easter Sacrifice In 2007 I've given up writing longpoems for Lent....  - - - - - - - - -   Hospice Not at all whatwas expected:chintz and soft furnishings,shag...

One from the cave A cave man and a cave man and a cave manfound themselves upright in a cave,found their limbs suddenly dexterousfound their fingers feeling into articulations;and they were...

GrizzlyShit, no, she thought. He can’t be dead. He just can’t be.Grizzly hadn’t woken up. He would sit in the same polyester shirt and trousers every time Angie saw him at the same table in the...

...so...soas on a streamwe softly sink into another moving period of beingliving, changingmotions of consciousness of becomingand my dreams follow alonginstances of emotion, trying to live in...

BrideMiss Liddell was riding on the bus.  The one that came past her flat had been full of kids headed for their schools in the city; they’d jeered at her from the long seat at the back, called...

Triptych for the Lone Night Gods and too much time  is spent on thisyou  only have  so  many hoursin a day you  have  to prioritisebecause  a third of this is...

All the Queen's Menin the cold crystal hallsof the Snow Queen's palace,rows of single silent menpose against the blinding frozenwhite of glacier walls withicicles through their...

HingesA daily chore of yoursin the cold winter dawnis dealing with the sliding doorsof the boat's cabin.Broken for ages. Somethingwe all take for granted by now,something we know we haveto come...

ElevationFrom the upstairs library, through laboratories, down the grand stairs, back along corridors, through the cafeteria and out the front security entrance takes nine minutes to walk, 863...

Getting Real (Inspired By Actual Hallucinations)You think you know the real me? I ask him. You think you've seen inside me? I laugh. I laugh bitterly and gaily and I see that now he's the...