November 2021

  • For Coral I dreamed my friend was suicidal So useless she said so useless that I may as well just die Shrunken and small she was A little old nothing When I told her the dream she said yes shrunken and small that’s how I feel I hope she soon feels better Expands back into Read more

  • In the women’s clinic the mammogram machine is shaped like an embryo in profile Large awkward squarish head Straight spine Tucked-under pelvis A leg bud (tray) An arm bud (compressor plate) Mouthparts where the beam comes out Embossed in the plastic a plus-sign where a proto-eye might be First published in Creatrix 49, June 2020 Read more

  • The centre

    Look in, in to the Planck time, / the dream moment of birth, / where our physics fails / as quantum and gravity clash / and the cosmos is crushed to a jot / immanent, imminent / a tiny infinite Not Read more

  • The nothing

    … At the mention of solitude / the shadow mouth / turns up its corners / and the shadow eyes /glint … whispering loneliness / breathing solitude … Read more

  • That girdle!

    That girdle!

    A vegetable attached to a rock / Calling for Mother in the night … That Gödel! His theorem! / The calling voice / The fear of the brain dissolving … To love them anyway / To not care that they’re broken / To stop … Read more