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      Mythopolitics we make sure to pack a deck of cards for the train, or a sunday afternoon visit to the park. the cards will give our hands something tangible to do, and that thing should be as far away from Productive as possible, for that is the...

      Beef Rendang Hey kid, this won’t mean that much to you yet, but I didn’t taste my first proper curry till at least twenty-one—if we ignore Friday-night jar-based meals your Gran assembled, a few sultanas mixed in to make things more exotic. And...

      Aimless Aimless between Dropping out Of art school And absolutely no Friggin’ money For Kenyon I moved in with Television and doting Grandma in flowered Wallpapered rooms Sat on her porch Back and forth On the glider That Grandpa and I Hauled home...

      In the Dales after John Ashbery it's a special kind of empty the footed earth, saluting the sky so much to see I took a photograph of you posed in the window seat punchy red slippers blurring rock and field the same window in five years? jenny...

      Spotted in a 7-Eleven in North Hollywood It beckons from between plasters and hand cream, the box bright-white, the lettering green. The first time I needed one, I visited a chemist in London, murmuring to a middle-aged man across the counter as...

      Return Travel West. Submerge yourself in the M4’s homeward drift. Remember how its nightly glow bewitched the kid at your bedroom window? It looked like fire, didn’t it? Exit at junction 34. Drop into street view Follow the lane down past prickly...

    quiet slid in bass-drop dams up pierced ears, furred with youth, his vest drinks sweat, high-tops, Moog-loop domed cap punctured with embroidery, brailled ethnographic record, reverb haze of brisk lavender, wire mesh trash of the park, sun-burnt song,...

    safety in numbers lunchtime, in the maths department arranging pencils by colour two friends, carefully sorting into clear plastic tubs a temporary stand against the inevitable entropy of fourteen-year-olds this, and each september brightened by a new...

      Autumn Fires Unexpected as burned stone, what am I supposed to do with this memory? The sudden shuffle of ash, flames clicking like needles, grey-cold flags. You there just now – I can’t be sure – perhaps about to be? 5 a.m., still curved like wax...

    CONFIRMATION Aircon crickets through the night outside my parents’ bedroom since brother and I are not allowed AC given the dangers of cold air to children. I can’t sleep under my polyester blanket; wet back stuck to cotton sheets fused to a mattress...

    Inheritance of Smoke We did not inherit land, only remnants of fields they burned— black fields scorched before we understood what it meant to sow. Fathers left us silence: not of cruelty, but some shattering fear. Growing up, we learned to decipher...

      I Don’t Remember Breakfast With You Maybe I remember getting brunch; or the time the dog ate my croissant; or when you fed me strawberries ironically in bed and we giggled with sugar on our lips. These breakfasts bubbled like new rivers. Now,...

        Remedial ‘Intended for school students who have not achieved the level of necessary attainment’ He couldn’t play rugby – the oval slithered away whenever he touched it and he fell in the mud or more often was pushed with some viciousness....

      You used to be shorter When we first came here two seasons ago You were barely as high as my hip Now you can look me right in the eye It’s almost impossible to believe You’re not quite as tall as Giannis But you hope that one day you can Jump like...

    Pivotal When our plaything ricochets falling who knows where everything hinging on the line there is a precise moment when nothing is certain a glorious terrifying uncontrollable wait the receptacle of our hopes poised mid- air with infinite trajectories...

      Art Exhibit I hear the roar of the ocean. I hear a series of shrieks and long screams. An eventual lull comes. My ears are an abstraction. I don’t know what to tell you. Last night a spider made its way inside my ear. It crawled out with fragments...