(2013)
Quite often I find myself running for the train in the morning.
#Run
I am inside by the window Outside it is snowing the dormant grass pales as the icy… of a million frozen raindrops attempt their silent smothering.
Just a drop In the ocean Pretty pearl of glass Infinite reeling colours Inside
Life This dot to dot beeb-bop melee of mish-mashed memories
Life rolls, in the sway, the ebb and flow of all matter Every pebble treasure is from the… Who cares?! One time
Damn and blast and house arrest Before the lungs fail Ring-a-ring-a-roses No playing kids Blind-eye playground test
We travelled back to old Italia wearing borrowed shoes and a ten g… tipped the driver for driving all… through the driving rain Oh - it poured alright
Quiet is the whisper the first confess in an ear close to midnight when others are at rest A secret kiss in darkness
To the ends of the Earth where the lava hits the air raw-earthly habitats To light the night
Write your name on the next bomb.… Wish for a child to hit. A hummingbird pipsqueak heart stop… A punch like a holy fist. Hold a used shell to your child’s…
Vanquished, the night slides from… those cruel games over. In the thin sliver of winter warm this unkempt heir rose, clung close by the odour of night-…
I danced in the city when the day… I danced around the throngs and wo… I wondered what it was that had su… that I joined a queue from a new d… Spend then, wherever you may be
I’ve done it in bars and beaches a… Toilets, and cars, and parties, upside down and angry, on floors, in baths, and desperately.
A raucous laugh on a cigarette gus… A petal falling between the cracks… Playground bottles high as kites, What kids we’ve become. Doing time in the cells of mind,
Stop being so still inanimate objects move to my will
This morning’s focus is lost in my head This morning’s traffic made another one dead This morning’s talking points