Bread

I flung my body Like bread to the ducks Stale biscuit sweet Hard. Cruelly misbaked to the wrong Baker. Pecked at my dolly sized pieces – ‘Keep still’ Pretend not to feel the pain. Repeat: ‘I am still bread’ ‘I am not dead’ But deep inside I felt the snaps of beaks, the disillusion of winged hopes flying me to new [...]

Oceans apart

An email My day is multi-coloured yellow Could Would Should write back  Fly a plane in the clouds above  Puffs of white ‘I love you’ fluff But I swim in his words Until they grow distant Until I feel the Ocean between each consonant Until the music fades Until Stubborn? Proud Refused him  Ignored him Denied him When he [...]

Lazy-cat

Im late Which once would have affected me I would have picked up my pace Slightly Rushed even But now When the work I do isnt the work I DO I can choose to languidly cat-stretch away my morning In my own good time Stride up-hill No guilt No shame Easy-living I have to say [...]

Boys

Boys play football inside my head. They tackle and score and kick me in the net. The ying is that they wake me up. The yang is that they just wanna f***

That Mouth

That Mouth  Licks a choopa choop in a circular motion, chewing at the straw. Swear words roll off the tongue dripping onto the floor with the melting ice-cream Beers fizz, swig, knock-out to forget. Those unsaid words choking. Gulping. Whimpering.  Lies pattering out P.P.P.P.P.p.p.p.p.p gunshots. Humming with the summer bees. Flesh and lips and salty [...]

No

NO The power that word possesses. To lift you up to the empyrian. To firm any handshake. Steely blocks trunking into the warm baked earth. An ascension of tall plural boscage. Swinging canopies of laughter. The dearth of wantonness. Stranglehold. Laugh you twitter-ball. Chinese lamp-smile for the boys and the girls. The tears wont flood [...]

On Love

“Hello I’m Love I’ve just popped by for a cup of sugar.”   After a steamy night you arrive unnannounced and pitch your tent in my head. Earmuffs cant stop you – seeping in through my eyelids and bellybutton. A lions pride. Bullock.   Love channel flicks you with its remote control. Sand’s tempesta. Polaroid snapshots. Swallow the butterflies. [...]