The Pressure of Love Your eyes are (glass)y Like a mouth ajar (crack)ling Spits tears through its (open)ing And you now (under)stand That this thing…
Muddled In the middle of the Atlantic Lives bad news A whale Wistfully singing Through the storm Of cold And unmade beds Which twinkle Under…
‘secrets’ was a winning poem in the 2019 Newcastle Young People’s Poetry Competition.
August 11th 1980 August 11th 1980. The blue, the black, the cadmium yellow, They’d said the crossing was fine; no one really knew. All apart…
I wish I wish I had no fear I wish I had teleportation I wish I had a Basset Hound I wish I had a…
Dearest Dolores on porcelain pins Wobbling and nervous, her doll-like limbs Twitch with a hatred that personifies In the deep, dark sea of her flitting…
My Grandmother’s Stories When I ask her of her past It seems so beautiful She tells me of her snakeskin wedges On her wedding day…
Ammonite Dizzying hair’s breadth height This tiny swirl of time, Seen like a shadow In the dead grey rock Rock split In two halves The…
No Ducks Around in Winter My sister died today, doesn’t want a wake, anyone looking down on her. Two, she found a box of baby…
Three beers in, Sunset Beach, Vancouver I wish I had more to give you than this Red Truck beer – cheapest in the liquor store…
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