Much like a burnt-out farmer flumping down
upon his ache-allaying, tender bed

Each year we climbed to that place high above the ruins.

People came to find out what ‘Garage Sale’ meant
in a small village landlocked county early burning comet tail
of Thatcher’s Britain.

a cowboy is that split second of doubt between victim 
and victor, quick whipcrack out the corner of the mouth,

I’m nineteen, I’m ancient.
I am so hungover
one of my eyes has fallen out…

Ceilings don’t hold water well.
Burst a pipe at the top
of an apartment block
to test this theory, if you will.

      Abertawe After Richard Siken For CHD Tell me about the time I mansplained that Swansea is the English for Abertawe and means town at the mouth of the River Tawe. And about when, from the hill above Rhossili beach Lundy Island’s spectral mass...

Daedalus
Plato loved his incessant questioning
of the natural world’s engineering

I tempt you with morsels
of soft-skinned peach, a pear sliced
in quarters, pipless and skinless.