Over supermarket lager, pie-eyed

in badly-stained underwear

The sunflower is an explorer throwing

caution to the wind

chasing the raging fiery ball

THE TIMETABLE GLISTENS WITH CONDENSATION

Playing nude bingo at

the Police Station with Nigel

Where do all these words come from?

While watching the sunflowers grow

I got on the train with a ghost

de...

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Race war frozen in memory

black dogs cast out angles that make me scream inside

This gift of feeling love ends with a thousand

empty days made of silk

In their lives of long distress

The solace of choice, securely made

near the coastal shelf of abstract loneliness

Dancing to Shakespeare and his funky

verses about metaphysical loneness.

The calming mellowness of...

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Hypnotic Methodist Tingling

A sea of souls awaiting slaughter for freedom

Mermaid, just say no

On a darksome day we skipped to death

Marked by a felt-tipped pen

There is sadness, but not without hope

Samuel Bamford is protesting

In Hong Kong

Filming on his smart phone, filming,

Sharing, filming, sharing. Hoping it

Won’t be edited out, won’t be his ...

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Iron bird, place the peg

On your nose and press your hair

Pale Beyonce dances

Uncertainly with clowns

Blonde power Olympic salute

Curl your fingers around mine

On a dancefloor of angels

I am so angry that those lies

Still dominate those folks

To cut into the last horizon

Fragmented thunderstorms

I was scared to death

Clicking heels

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In secret arbours poetry unfolds,

rattling, winding snake in the grass

vibrant gold laminated landscapes glow

shifting the smoke to hold my breath

age is a collection of memories,

dust gathered on the mantlepiece

in the space that once held

your photograph

sitting on a slope is making me dizzy

wheelchairs, and relatives keeping photogr...

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