Monthly Archives: April 2014

Love Is not a bloom To be cultivated And cut when in flower Love Is not a song Heard dancing down From a radio Love Is not fruit To be plucked, ripe From a high branch Our love Is not

You’re it All look at me Tell me what you see Full of it Dancing After the beers All without fears Full of it Watch out The girl in your sight Might just cause a fight You’re full of it … Continue reading →

A drink in a bar Begins the tale Cigarettes smoked outside Later still dancing With strangers A walk somewhere Continues the tale Streets you don’t know Alleyways and pavements That seem familiar A last taxi ride Finishes the tale The … Continue reading →

A summer which was on fire You read of it in papers We saw the dropped match, grassfire Fled to safety, talked later Of what we saw We witnessed the blaze’s thirst How the spark touched the dry grass Into … Continue reading →

Remember when we typed Blurred words of ink on a page Old typewriter, carbon paper Later we couldn’t sort Original from copy I got annoyed by your lack Of care for which was first That hurt, so we laid them … Continue reading →

That spring sunshine That beguiles and lies Makes you step out Forget yourself, cast a clout Now you shiver and he smiles That bud of blossom That frosts the edge Of trees and lines The road with petals, signs Of … Continue reading →

The contagion is over Its diffusion a contusion Across flesh As he bled. All the pills and the potions To mask the emotion Covered his face As he aged. The rich crimson of disease Spread: poison moved Through his veins … Continue reading →

The first one, or the Next, you should have just said so That is how friends speak

He whispers Sweet somethings Into her ear She drinks in The sugar-sound Till intoxicated A fine flush Of sugar-rush, blooms Across her cheek Addicted, She feeds on refined Words and raw ideas An experiment Candy stripe kisses And sweet shop … Continue reading →

Hush, hush You say to the wind As it sweeps through the trees Hush, hush You say to the rain As it pounds to the ground Hush, hush You say to the birds As they call to the skies Hush, … Continue reading →