Some Nights.

Some nights. When its late. And the cars run down the road. And the world slows. I can feel you in the air around me. Smell you (but I’ve forgotten now, all submerged beneath anger and doubt and the un-reality of it all). Some nights when it is quiet and […]

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The Silence.

I want to tell you, how important you are to me But I fear you will toss it away as you toss everything else away, and again, I will be there, with nothing left to say.

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Crash-landing

The whole world crashed down The sky lay awkwardly in the street, it’s stars askew Car horns blared, trees lay uprooted But people still walked the streets, avoided the loose stars, ignored the car horns Continued with their life Glass crushed underfoot No one noticed,the sky in the street No […]

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The Stories You Left Me With

You only told me stories to keep me. You only told me great hidden stories to keep me. And when I was kept, you left. And I was left alone with only all your great stories to read through. I sit in puddles of your stories, dipping my fingers in […]

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Remembering For You

His hands are crumpled brown paper bags His eyebrows, I notice now are suddenly sparse Feisty but few He begins, I was forgetting… I forget a lot now I wait This story – this story you tell. Is mine. Mine. Imagine… Tell me, what does ‘dilemma’ mean? You must tell […]

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In Your Shoes

It was only when I walked in your shoes banana, camel-coloured, loopy and long, except that one, I liked It was only when I slipped them on – comfortably (I didn’t even hesitate to lace them tight) It was only when I walked in them, walked in your shoes Clomped […]

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