kiss boom
there are electrons passing from my lips to yours
when we kiss
some infinite number of universes
dissolve between us in the warm spit of passion
and when I close my eyes and feel your tongue
ask such sweet questions it's like
it’s like
the most enormous thing
could not possibly mean less
and I can feel it now
it is the life that we live again as we ...
Friday 12th July 2019 2:13 pm
the bird and the puddle
there is a small grey puddle
in a cave in a far-off country
that may or may not exist
and at night a plain black bird
flies a thousand miles
to land in this puddle
and when its feet and legs
raise the temperature of the puddle
by just 0.001%
it is enough to warm the water
and because of this
the most beautiful orchid
is finally allowed to b...
Friday 5th July 2019 3:30 pm
perfect grass poem
mother said there is a garden inside me
and not father not no-one can kick me so hard
that the grass will bruise and I will drink enough
from fractured men that the fountain behind my
midnight will keep flowing out keep everything wet
warm sacred and if I ever let you cut me open
the orchids will smell of a beautiful confusion
Wednesday 5th June 2019 4:06 pm
sexual apocalypse at the gym poem
imagine if you had stayed there forever
on the cross fit, arms flailing comically
legs metronomic, pumping sad alone
nothing in your stomach but powdery bile
sweat pouring off you, drenching the floor
pooling in dewy puddles on the pedals
staining the blue carpet tiles, trickling
in salty ravines, hitting the mirrors
cascading down the steps, bursting forth
fro...
Friday 24th May 2019 7:54 pm
matches
you are freefall among the pine needles
motes of dust and sunset pepper your face
we had found a box of matches
burnt every one within five minutes
gambled away our fingertips
on who could last the longest
if i could weigh this memory now
it would be wolves and yearning
a liquid mess seething through the forest
some jawline ruining my welcoming throat
a fai...
Sunday 19th May 2019 6:46 pm
cosmic fuck poem
the search for god becomes a suffocation
stab the fat star spill yolk across the sky
yellow a scream across the de-tuned darkness
touch my lips, breakdown this sunset songbird
Friday 10th May 2019 12:34 am
click/clack
i found your fingernails in my cereal again this morning
then you float in to the room like a virus or a daydream
we take out our eyes and place them on the table
such horrible things, like birthday jelly they wait patiently
for the atrocities to occur, a metronomic ebb and flow
a cat is rescued from a fire/five dead in school shooting
Saturday 4th May 2019 4:31 pm
think back/pink black
i am idiot young and
in the back of the car
i close my eyes just so
the light of the sun
between the trees beats a tattoo
behind my lids and lenses
and that is all I want to be
just then - isolation
pink black pink black pink black
a heartbeat from 8 minutes before
Monday 22nd April 2019 12:55 pm
providence
when i was younger i was terrified of death
of light peeking through my tired skin
but now I am positive that death is just like
leaning back on a chair and it tips over but
never hits the floor,
and you fall and you fall
soft warm hands
touching the parts of you that are fracture
breathless and that brings me comfort so maybe
i am going crazy or maybe all thi...
Wednesday 10th April 2019 7:53 pm
i am made of water and so are you
oh monster/oh mother now here is confusion
when i lay with you, lets sleep with nothing on
the lamps on fire and oh would you put it
where i am made of childhood fear
plant seeds in my mouth and pull wolves from my tongue
that trees could flow forth from smoothest confusion
grow apples so red that the doctor is weeping
while for you I am starving I am starving...
Tuesday 2nd April 2019 4:14 pm
short poem after chronicling the lessening of sentience in my mothers emails during the past year
one day my mother will die
trembling yellow fracture
birdsong on the radio
Thursday 28th March 2019 3:48 pm
Amoebius (For National Poetry Day)
and yes, they said it was the end
on the screaming siren news channels
before the set was switched off by hands
that had, just an hour ago, touched the purest part of you
as the ball of fire cut ribbons of blinding despair
through the evening sigh like a sunset
but 50x the speed
50x the oh my god isn't it beautiful
because we don’t fear death in this hous...
Thursday 21st March 2019 7:04 pm
tanka for the nemophilia
spring defies winter
ibaraki's acid bruise
piercing litmus noise
detune freezing radio
submission to fleeting hope
Monday 18th March 2019 5:06 pm
even though it's all switched off, a constant hum
the world is finally ending and everyone is in the street fucking
and we cling to this awful rock while somewhere a wild dog rips a child
to pieces, its jaws locking together like lovers hands on a cold night as they
explore the cartography on their wrists, laughing at the idea they
will ever be old and spitting softly in aching, welcome mouths
the world is finally ending and everyo...
Thursday 7th March 2019 5:01 am
Azeotropic distillation
in svalbard, i watch the northern lights
a neon bruise on the tiny patch of infinity that
fizzes endless chaos atoms above my head
we’re the ghosts of those who touched us
but if you distil the maelstrom down to its purest form
all that’s left is your heart pumping blood, your brain crackling
and the saliva that passes between our lips when we kiss
Tuesday 26th February 2019 4:14 pm
cellular automata
i found a single seashell alone in outer space
engraved with ancient language
i climbed into the wash of its vacuum
rest my head against the smooth inner wall
closed my eyes, let it drift towards so much nothing
a billion years of starlight warmed my blood
and this is how i learned to love, upon the letting go
Saturday 23rd February 2019 7:15 pm
haiku - jasmine
winds from shikoku
wild jasmine falls like pale clouds
settles on white hair
Monday 28th January 2019 6:45 pm
the quiet room
there is a room in minnesota that is so quiet
you can hear your blood trickle through your veins
no one can stand it, but I wish I was there
to hear my body shut down
here is a liver
here is a lung
here is the panicked thrum of a heart that is dying
here is the piss and fuzz of the brain
realising it is alone
what does hope sound like?
is...
Friday 18th January 2019 1:41 pm
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