poem of the week

One half of the room a collage of debris, tumbled and broken, sadly wasting concrete. The other still intact in pastel tints of order, all playthings softly ranked, squat little cupboards, each one with its label. …

Like an under whisked meringue the downy duvet lies flat over our mountainous range but wriggling fingers pull at the now slowly rippling surface. Its snowcapped peaks melting into marshmallow clouds like a…

When you drive at night, you can look into people’s homes, into lit rooms through windows. You might see a TV show they’re watching, a meal, or an argument. When you drive in winter, you can…

when i was lost at sea, there was a song i used to sing every night to make me dream sweet things. it spoke of a boy who needs faith going into a church, and believing in everything there but himself. to sleep, i would taste…

I don’t think I’ve ever seen A mirror in My dreams Maybe The worlds I build are Too flat  To reflect Beyond My own Plane  I don’t think I’ve…

We sit at the red garden galvanised table with punched out holes to let the rain fall through the kitchen smells of roast chicken. – the chicken I salvaged from the cat’s jaws. I slouch at the table – I’m the wolf …

After the Irish of Aodhgan O’Rathaille She was in the brightening sea and in clearbrightness – something changed. Following, I entered the substance. It felt valuable like diamond or blood. She moved in, under,…

We walked over crooked roots and branches until we reached the water’s edge, stopping only to take off our shoes Your arms orbited mine as I shifted and splayed, fingers fanning over a half-sunken statue of a…

The Big Freeze of 1963 turned London into an open-air museum. Foxes, caught in a taxidermist’s pose, frozen in suspended animation. Geese locked in cloud vaults. Blackbirds glued to lawns. Trees hard as enamel. The…

Eyes closing for a minute, just resting- the mountain a dim shadow on a green lake, shade worn lightly- We didn’t even notice not until years later when it wasn’t as easy to search a face without being found out, no…