Poems

Ancient and modern

fuerte

I clap my hands – a wave forms Arcs, falls Somewhere stone breathes out.

Between the lines

Maybe it’s time to write the lines Of how and who I loved and lost. Maybe its fine between the lines To write of paths tangled and crossed. Maybe it’s good to note the blood

vortex

Constrained restrained I meet you, Vortex. Wild walls of whirling wind greet you Thoughts preparing to spin out Wound back in Skeined Unrefined Grated raw by debris Detritus

wayside shrine / kinetic

Take flight to the wayside shrine on wings. Shells and feather shine - glint oh the remembering of the ending the overlay of patina of shimmering...

On and On

And from it all came a poem And from it all came a song And from her lips came a word And from his heart came a groan And after all was said and done...

Fences

While the birds played at being planes The planes played at being birds While the girls played at being brides The brides played at being girls...
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Cherry

As it is?

The washed-clean world wavers, dips, Shakes itself legitimate Spits out a hen's tooth, a curate's egg, a unicorn embryo Denies the night before The...

Give me the image of my soul

I wish it would come The day dream figure The half-imagined stab at truth I wish it would come into night time Make itself less amorphous More...

Bounded by...(North Bernica)

If I lived back here How would that be? Bound by the tides and Deep family history. Tethered, While stray buzzards prey overhead While gray dolphins...

Small comfort

It is so still, to speak would break the spell. Snowdrops scattered at hedge sides. (I don't remember that.) Trails of sky-snails smoke. Small...
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Cherry

(Past) Tense

The world has tired me, today. Too many scraps of ghosts of me, of them. Too many flitting shapes at the corners. Too draining to keep count, stay...
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Cherry

In the hollow

There are four walls somewhere to hold me. Four walls, slate floor Dappled light Salt air. Four walls to scaffold me As I gently fall apart and...
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Cherry

Spirals (a 20 year old remnant...)

I am spirals. I see the best and worst of me Periodically. The twists and turns of my life Pass by overhead But I can't meet again, Relive, Those...
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Starman

(Head of lead.) Tears for years, Bedroom companion Barely electric record player Chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature. Always there, thin...
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Hard hearted?

My heart bleeds, leaves Sits in a ruin by the sea Drinks brine Eats kelp Barnacled but free.

Berlin 1

How many times have I died in a dream? How many faces viewed on a screen? I see boys, poised in the frame Ready to travel, to labour in vain. And...

Peace Mission

I looked for peace inside And found a strange and gnarled yearning I walked I looked for peace in the nearest church The Catholic mass blared from...
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Cherry

Professor Avril Henry: An alternative and very tardy eulogy

You instantly expand my provincial horizons. Just by me seeing you. It is 1988. I am Goth. You are terrifying. You are awesome. Your mind as sharp as...
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Gold cherry

Hetha in the kirk

The Gore tex rustle fades, the hikers leave and I have the place to myself Me and the tattered shards of the Christ god The thick walls holding back...
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Cherry

West is the best?

I could go no further east Birthed near the breakers Toes on the reef edge Limited by the cold sea I looked to the west And lost myself in the...