Jackson

FLY FREE Beautiful Bird FLY FREE Though it hurts to watch you Though my face aches for your feathers against my jaw and my ribs ache to be pierced again by your claws FLY FREE Stretch your golden wings in the wind Hunt in the city, the country, the sea FLY FREE while you can… Read more

Status: Felt it all over. Uh. I hadn’t it at the 3am party Arrive later on with no identifying Just a dark [Perth] greeting I wrote on a Status: Spare couch Status: Pack tissues Arrive later on with no Hopefully does after doesn’t because really that’s Because wouldn’t it be nice to send long writerly… Read more

When all methods have been tried, all highways travelled, all sentences written, all messages sent To get a handgun from somewhere and just do it That’d be my method of choice Practise on a target first to get the feel Put on my long black coat and boots Listen to one more song, sing one… Read more

When we sat on the stage steps you with your camera me with my silence and leaned on each other I played with your irresistible hair and I thought people will think we are lovers But I didn’t edit my actions Being true to oneself, even in the light, is more important than anything people… Read more

I like white boys I like them translucent the black t-shirt sleeve-edge, white bicep curve the cool nape, tide-touch hairline the black sock, thin sparse-haired ankle the Cleopatra-milk-bath hands, stark knuckles and nails the diffident fingerprints he puts on me the fierce streak of black inside him First published on Fringe Gallery’s blog Read more