I wish I had coins slipping out of my pockets
When sitting on a sofa in a house to call mine.
Hear them chink feel them slither into crevices
Between clean soft cushions under which
They would hide for my … CONTINUE READING »
I empty you to feel me
I feel you in my abdomen
As you peruse my interiors
Plunge into my abysses
A diver caught in darkness
Reflecting ruby shadows
Of membranes imbued with lymph
Coagulating substance an ocean
Absorbing creatures daring to approach.
Pour within me … CONTINUE READING »
I empty you to feel me
I feel you in my abdomen
As you peruse my interiors
Plunge into my abysses
A diver caught in darkness
Reflecting ruby shadows
Of membranes imbued with lymph
Coagulating substance an ocean
Absorbing creatures daring to approach.
Pour within me … CONTINUE READING »
Event Horizon
Two years since they took shots at you eight guns
Pointed in your direction aiming for your sombre heart
In the midst of a galaxy fifty million light-years away
To glimpse the invisibility of an extravagant theory
Propounding your existence … CONTINUE READING »
Plenum
As I gaze deep into my eyes reflected
By aluminised moulded sand I fixate,
On cloudy scleras broken capillaries
Crimson rivulets pouring into black wells.
A Universe within, mirroring all that exists,
A staring contest with Self, victorious only
If … CONTINUE READING »
Contrasts
The man was struggling to raise a tiny ceramic cup,
Trembling hands rested on a rush hour counter smeared
By stains of coffee croissants crumbs clumsily left behind
By those who indulged before him. Deep breaths
As he strives to … CONTINUE READING »
Railroad Bridge
He has lived under me for over two decades,
When he first settled in he only had a piece
Of cardboard a flowered blanket and a sheet,
A book and a moustache, deep blue eyes.
No one knew him nor … CONTINUE READING »
The shark
She knew she was just a fragile goldfish
Life had proved her so, thrusting her
From gentle rivers into wild oceans
At the mercy of tides gasping for air in salty waters.
Chased by criminals in disguise she had to … CONTINUE READING »
Thank you
I was considering our differences the way
We walk I gently you like to hear the sound
Of your steps your heels the pavement tremble,
We eat I follow the etiquette you are oblivious to
I wait for you to … CONTINUE READING »
The Spoon
I have been wondering for years about the spoon
Its graceful feeling and its warmth
Its promises of shelter instinctively cuddling up
In primitive blankets made of human skin.
Though the merciless hunter does not kill its prey
It deviously … CONTINUE READING »