(1988)
“What is it?” (A baby of course,) “Oh it’s a boy.” And as you slapped on to mothers t… Like a wet fish,
Grief is like a deep pool you fall into from time to time. One moment you are walking along life’s weary path and the next you are drowning. Eye achingly broken, flogged by tears and w...
I don’t want to hear that. What it was you said. No son of mine could be like that. I’d rather you were dead! Things we shouldn’t talk about.
Don’t go yet! We have barely found the consonant… I love you You love me Four plus four!
Twilight the blue sky fades to gre… Golden yellow sun always there, Burning my back and bleaching my h… And bleaching my hair. The sea holds an answer I feel as…
I want to smoke Gitanes. I hate the smell of smoke! I ache to light Gauloises And cough and wretch and choke. I want to watch the world pass by
I cannot begin To capture my Love for you In prose or Haiku
Do I write my poems and prose and… Cowardly! Do I publish them and say, "this… How indulgent! Do I say nothing?
When you can’t do this, What do you do? You do that! My heart is broken. And I can’t do this.
Live life like you are young; Whatever your age, whatever your s… Spend money like you have it. Drink fine wines. Eat good foods.
High platform shoes, Seventies mullets, Tight perm hairdos, Fadgies like bullets. Fadgies that harden,
I threw all my poems into the bin When I was young, I’d studied the way of the human p… By Freud and Jung. I felt they would make me feel
I will not ask for help. This virus has abandoned me high a… I locked down early. As a health professional I did no… Though I waited.
I am not long for this place, I am short, Of patience, Of temper with fools, Of money,
The fog off the sea has eaten the… gone! Silver sheen, light all night. Cow shapes still! Laying down the circles crown! P…