The Dead Start Fires

From my second chapbook: http://thedeadstartfires.blogspot.com

The Oslo Girls

The Oslo girls paint by numbers. The Oslo girls supplement their income through bookkeeping and prostitution. The Oslo girls weep for the dead of Juarez. The Oslo girls invented baseball.
Cherry

crawl into my grave and turn the key

i have done all i can to forget you but the memory still creeps across my skin i have done all i can to hide from you but the light still burns my eyes i have done all i can to bury the past in a box
Cherry

we have eaten them all

circling they fly across september blood red council of crows hand in hand we lie stubble scraping watching the portents formation mirroring our own outstretched arms
Cherry

seventeen years

there was a time when i would have given you anything given up anything surrendered my life to you surrendered my life for you but seventeen years is a long time long time stroking her neck running my
Gold cherry

we closed the circle

so there i was with cass down the pub i'd always fancied her but never tried it on she was more like a mate and we'd had a few and got onto that six degrees of separation thing and cass was laughing

The Dead Start Fires

I went on a three day vodka bender. And when I awoke God spoke to me, Through the medium of a kettle, Through the medium of the classified football results. And this is what he said:

vacationing in purgatory

bloody great box of bones you stalk my life

The Mother of Mexican Poetry

I was born in a shack in Sonora.
Gold cherry

My Cocaine Mistress

You were huddled round the fire on the beach, Shepherding the flames for the evening breeze.