The Public World of Mania A cereal box is so exciting - the colours wonderful and ignorant and I taste nothing because I am fast. There is a waterfall through my head I never...

      Help Me, Don’t Put Your Hands on Me Ashamed to let my GP touch me because she knows ‘where I’ve been’ She’d be repulsed at my violated body And inside I want to scream I wear...

    trajectory, reversed or january sunlight on cinderblock buildings lives wasted but not yours and maybe not mine and it’s a long road from kandinsky to lydon and after that you’re on...

    Friday afternoons the joy of Friday afternoons knowing that it will only be 3 or 4 more hours before our shifts finish and we can walk out of there with our minds tingling and all of...

    You eat me at So they claim you left for health and safety But you left your boxers on my floor and some innocuous noodle box Tail between your legs eh You eat meat but flesh makes you...

    Education I'll tell you who I think about in the late hours, the wee cold down hours, the spare slow bare hours, when sleep slopes laughing from the bed, when the crowd kicks at the...

            iMay     i lay inside you listening … the washing machine and kettle are dreaming the fridge shivers as time falsely smiles under the impression it’s a neon star sixty seconds...

    Dormitory Ghosts After lights out here they come in unwieldy crocodile. The girl who claimed she saw God’s face in a digestive biscuit. The girl who went to Matron suffering with...

    From Egon Shiele’s House in Cesky Krumlov   Looking down on the Vltava river yellow leaves splattering the glassy surface. Seconds later brushed away by the current. Children...

      Tattoo I said my goodbyes last night. Stood naked full length at the mirror fossiled with fingerprints; studying the canvas of my left arm and chest as if it were an old friend...