winter monsoon, Bangkok, 2020 in Bangkok students amass asking after the disappeared in the shade of a banyan tree cut in half, in a diary twisting sugar with ink a seer wonders how to speak of what she has embroidered of a night world of frangipani...

      Beachcombing at Night I find a broken compass behind his right ear, two Euros behind his left, bent spoons in each armpit, AA batteries behind both of his knees. He hands me a torch, nothing happens when I flick the switch. ‘Ah!’ I swap the...

      Sunday Mornings You place the pieces on the table pendulum  rocker-arm  weights  escape wheel use a toothbrush      frisk the cogs There is a limit to tightening the time a risk of breaking The grandfather should not be tilted sideways  backwards ...

      After Visiting Grandma After Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett I walk home from the bone orchard, my fist a jaw of keys. To think I used to know nothing of teeth. Like any good hunter I wear the pelt of the beast – my first boyfriend’s red hoodie....

      Walpole Rollerdrome, 1981 At the gate, turn in, skate the potholes, slicing folds of chicken-wire, to carrot-shed, Alsatian, straining at a metal leash. Skate past the long, long ditch of water, once iced with murder, now rusting engines and...

      Lockdown: A Portrait To protect your skin, Lockdown wears a shapeless cotton dress. Lockdown thinks it used to be navy, but sunlight has bleached it a drab, nameless blue – leaving no patches of vibrant colour, it is uniform in its lifelessness....

      Bus train bus 1. Fuse White lights in ash trees in a community green space remind me what that week did. I see the mechanics now because I'm in the front seat of the upper deck of the 97 with the lego brick of the stop bell a childish comfort...

      Happiness in my lockdown sock drawer Test-tubes, conical flasks and molecules. Back to A Level Chemistry with Mr Cartwright we learn about magnetism with marker pen examples. A moon lander, planets and a telescope and I am back in my childhood...