Poems

I don't really do poems...

breathless

i want to hold your face between my hands and study it like goddard jump-cutting to the back of sebergs head in a speeding car attempting to capture the beauty of sunlight

Maputo

My first poem...

The Winter King

Your hand small and cold slips into mine as we trudge across the snow while church bells peal over frozen meadows. Later we kiss and make love for three whole months we are together
Cherry

In Rajasthan

I spy you from a long train traversing the dusty plains armed Sikhs fore and aft guard us from dacoits while we admire views of ancient citadels crowning sandstone escarpments

The Malabar Coast

I miss the mornings in Cochin when rising early as the moon set between the palms I would smoke cigarettes and drink chai on a rickety balcony above a waking street and listen to the traders
Cherry

Enduring Brixton

Some lines on gentrification and the destruction of the last of the old Brixton squats

Dishonest Love

Why I no longer do unrequited love..

Maputo Revisited

There remain days when I miss your dark fountain of hair the caramel skin and glistening lips. Nights when I long for portugese whispers in the darkness as you press close to me.

Natasha

She totters on new heels along the Kings Road young slender delicate hair freshly blown expensive apparel the most costly of scents in return for affection she expects only the best.