• On Conversation

    butterfly less wing endless circularity fatal conclusion ~ CLP 03/07/2021

  • On Endings

    my words fail (again) wish your kiss had sealed these lips leaving me struck dumb ~ CLP 03/07/2021

  • On the Edge

    solid, liquid, gas permanence ethereal shifting between states ~ CLP 01/07/2021

  • Listen

    This heart beat repeats unchanging, steady, rhythm constant companion ~ CLP 30/06/2021

  • Ring Me

    I begged, looking at the mark on the third finger of my left hand where there’s still an indented mark that never tans quite so dark as the rest of me not since I took off that gold band threw it in a drawer three years ago, or was it four? ~ CLP 21/06/2021

  • Dream #22

    Which bed is this? I wake unsure no standard hotel shape to reassure my musty head is somewhere secure familiar start to a new day with an unfamiliar face who has just pulled close the door behind her I hold a memory of shapes and words recalled too late that was not her name she

  • Love #1

    I miss you, Grandpa opened the dusty window turned the rusty key ~ CLP 16/06/2021

  • Dream #19

    flying with brothers and sisters screams of joy uncontrollable giggles screaming with brothers and sisters pained by absence collapsed in holes of grief uncontrollable brothers and sisters scoured by loss wandering like orphaned kittens absence of brothers and sisters ~ CLP 15/06/2021

  • Dream #16

    there is sadness in empty time marked by irreversible movement of hands that cannot be rewound tracking in relentless orbit forward, forward, forward not noticing the swallow on the hedge not pausing at the sparkling brook not hearing the rustle of yellow rattle playing music in the meadow not understanding this is it that here

  • Dream #14

    the Moon lies in some galactic gutter off his face on space junk leaving all the lights on so many colours, constellations confused by brilliance of the luminous clutter and you here, warm, safe, sound asleep to the universal song and dance of the stars going loopy given their chance ~ CLP 09/06/2021