April 9, 2014
No army marches faster. Having beaten us, the clouds dropped their arrowfall into the bay, blessing our deepest failure. News reached me on the wind. Yet more ranks of salt and hate but there I was, sharing a mind with water after months of hard dryness. Stars gleamed like arrow wounds. There was great, roiling […]
March 18, 2014
A cold white saucer left outside our door (we know it’s blood you drink), so brimmed full that only the corner of your mouth appears. Strange relative, we’ve paid our dues – don’t visit us again this year. We’ll pour wine generously: forget our names and we will not forget to leave a saucer out. […]
Wax colours the grate and floorboards as the candles stream away. Two matches burn in a caldera. Their heads are charcoal. Their bodies, black along their length, anchor the flame to a melting derelict. Gone out, they are broken columns where temples stood, cluttered with burials, votives and valedictions to gods who’d raise used kindling […]
February 23, 2014
I dream of London’s buried waterways, how the Tyburn crashes through Westminster trammelled by culverts, a ghost of a ghost. Bury me somewhere nameless. Let the days settle underneath leaves. Open the ground, bury me deeper this time. Let me fall down where the rivers meet so I can feel the current without knowing. There’s […]