There was a dandy from Whittling who ate 3,000 peas in one sitting He finished and said “oh Dear” what a terrible idea and forever and a day he’s been si…

“All aboard”, the Captain cries music to my ears Up the fog soaked ramp the ocean mist already claims me into the wooden creaks

Quiet is the whisper the first confess in an ear close to midnight when others are at rest A secret kiss in darkness

It’s three in the morning and my v… I see life as a stage and the danc… The sets and the clothes are desig… Or we’d crawl on our bellies and e… Life is a dance,

The page was waiting like the dark liquid poured itself luminous in the night-time dim orange shed, orange head full of unburnt connections

Lost in this city I call to the twinkle star minds with a whisper the crowds respond with no words or time

Oh the grand of Duke of York, he had ten thousand men, he sent them out to fight on a hil… while he sat back drinking gin. And when they were happy they were…

To the ends of the Earth where the lava hits the air raw-earthly habitats To light the night

The first gasp of potent air taken in, shocks and awes innocence.

30,000ft life support this thin walled impro-bubble Moulded curves sealed in air, buckled to chair

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…

Damn and blast and house arrest Before the lungs fail Ring-a-ring-a-roses No playing kids Blind-eye playground test

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,

There, in glistening half-light a spider feels the dawn languid flies forget they’re born life loses a fight A newly unfurled a petal

Out There: everything waits. half lit sheds, and fields of sheep, an ambling man,