This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
My writing that is published on this site, including lots of creative commons poetry.
Why is higher maths / so full of the names of men? / Godel’s theorem, / Cauchy sequence, Hilbert space, / Gaussian, Hamiltonian, Lagrangian. // Highschool calculus wasn’t like that. / The derivative was not / the Newton function, / the integral not / the Leibnitzian. // Irrational numbers, imaginary numbers, / complex and transcendental… Read more
… Her father is the gardener. He keeps it / well, wanders in it like Wittgenstein. The others / make fun of him. The child watches // their cartwheels. Asks. One, two, / three, they laugh. But the child is not co- / ordinated. She doesn’t have her count / together. The numbers come /… Read more
they died moaning the structure / of their skins failed // as I sat above / the sea in a human space / white chairs white gravel / a high Hellenic shore / they came out of the sea // the whales bloated with water / moaning … Read more
What has been lost … The idea that you might throw a teabag / The idea that your teabag might stick // The photocopier room / The change machine / The papery rustle of the Science Citation Index / The sense that, somehow, everything was here … Read more
i this / thing / itchy with text // Your voice is an underground stream / hiding small eyeless creatures / Touching you is breaking something // again we / pass / masked / in black / filmed / skinvisible / the huge unsaid / suspended / wired // again we / pass / filmed… Read more
How does it feel, balancing on crammed / paws, coated / in killed fibres, lurching on two / long stilts, / your boulder head trying to fly? // How does it feel, sleeping in nests / so enormous and uncamouflaged, / so closed, inert and thick that they block / the smell of the Earth,… Read more