The scent of rain on ocean So different from anywhere else it falls Bitumen Soil All add their aromas But out on the water Clouds cry Kissing salt Brine dissolving Colliding Into a thousand patters that slide Boards rock gently Feet dangling As above So below Wet Faces turn to catch the droplets Grey wraiths […]
A sticky lint roller Around and around The events of the day Wound and collected Carefully selected For the delectation of the mind One more rewind Let’s play this Again Behind closed eyes In the dark and depths Regurgitated rubbish Surfaces Air pockets bubbling Troubling Joyful Sad The glimpse of another’s bowed shoulders This one’s […]
Climb into A box Close the lid And sit Let the clouds drift across the sky Don’t ask what the weather might be doing It doesn’t matter You’re always fine Then comes the day When someone asks you If you’re okay And a voice From deep within a box Says Of course! And you both […]
I sit with the stars To remind me Of the difference between long And short And old and young And that even things that look alive sparkle and shine Are already gone And everything dies And the vast And the small Will come to us all Because these things I forget sometimes
Curiosity is a craving Sent out upon the world And it is never quite satiated Instead it licks And gulps Lolls in the shade of a tree For but a heartbeat Before the question monster kicks in again To live within the predatory Appetites of a curious mind Is to never know peace Apart from […]
Like a bird unable to alight I could not find peace Nor quiet Branches of thought crumpled beneath weight And my mind buzzed loud with words I could not speak Yet they formed thick sentances And I had not brought a notebook with me I walked the block Drifting from shop to shop Smiling and […]
How long does something stay in the mind? A ridiculous amount of time It seems Cobwebs woven across neurons Catch my softened eyelids Jerking me into a memory laid down Years ago A skin I no longer own I guess it used to be But now? Meaningless Like Thumbing through clothes That used to fit […]
You can lose yourself at 2am Trapped somewhere between Yesterday and ten years ago Worrying ahead Peering into the impenetrable fog Of a life yet to be lived As if thinking your way carefully Is some sort of prevention device For mistaken history Fate does not require compliance It is relentless in its punctuality Turning […]
If tears had words They wouldn’t be needed And if pressure could burst Gently There would be no point Volcanoes lay dormant For Millenia Beneath basalt And turf Lava boils unheeded There is a point to anger It has magnificent power But if it can’t be contained Controlled, Built It adds nothing to the moment […]
When a butterfly emerges No one is watching Except the organism That is transformed Nobody understands it either Not truly We can observe the exterior But we can’t feel the experience Of sludge Becoming membrane Growing wings Or the confusion Occurring within A tiny brain Metamorphosis happens Far from the gaze A caterpillar builds a […]
