Island Secrets
Bumping along dirt tracks—
Sweet faces standing by corrugated homes, watching.
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The Goodbye
Evening light seeps through the leaves
of a drowsy willow, whose arms encircle our little boat.
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Grief
It kicked me in the teeth,
And I felt my brain bounce
In the calcium cage coated
By my knotted hair.
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Empty Wrapper
Soft worms watch from below
As I toil
Spraying dirt overhead.
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Don't ask me to stay up
We do so love
To happen in waves
But like a run-on sentence
I ignore it for days
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Arachne to Athena
I took a challenge from a pair of resilient hands.
You claimed to want to stop
Our tapestries bleeding into each other
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Hi Darling, Just Calling to Say
Hi Darling, Just Calling to Say I’ve been thinking an awful lot lately
About all the things you’d do that rubbed me
The wrong way:
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Wild Rabbits
In early September, I think of
All things staring into headlights.
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Blood and Water
I left a space on blotted page
where pen had not yet wandered
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The Lonely Automaton
Memories flicker behind my eye—
a clock’s constant ticking—
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Porthleven
I awoke at dawn to the lamenting of the wind
struck against the stone walls.
I listened; an elegy,
lyricised upon the breeze, breathed mourning
into the waves which teased the stone to rubble…
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Insomnia
staring
at the moon wide
eyed, blood slowly forming
rivers in my cracked eyes …
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