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  1. Spring Cleaning

    · City

    its a week out until spring and you can tell by the smell in the air, in the linens

  2. Confessions in Morning Light

    · City

    i was on fire, set ablaze. i am fireball and fog,

  3. The Laundry Basket

    · Loss

    i wring out my heart and peg it to dry on a wiry old clothesline that creaks in my childhood garden, among the bindis,

  4. Glasshouses and Mudholes

    · Loss

    i make wishes on blinking stars when i fear we’ll never meet, and place bets on racing cars

  5. Sticky Tape Images

    · Home

    i am trapped in the symbol of waiting for a train that never comes, swept away from the gloom of lighthouses and the shallows of the sea, dragged along the white, endless median strip that travels to grey boxes,

  6. Strings

    · Home

    strings are birthed from my fingertips and hands, and i am a body made of knots that span to all the places i have ever been.

  7. Fall Back

    · Home

    home now again, i fall back into bed,

  8. Linger For Me

    · Home

    as i wander upon the cracked footpath, the greys and violets of the city twist me like a shriveled leaf on grainy cobbles,

  9. Salt

    · Loss

    emotional turmoil strikes like waves, coiling, spiralling. crisp salt air tastes of freedom or pleasure,

  10. The Memory Letter

    i am watching flutters of greying birds perch above in heaven-like streaks of soaring sun. they nestle in the weeping tree that holds and hangs