Jackson

This month’s blood delays? or kills? an unborn child. I would have you suckle. Breasts milkless, minimal. Small nipples. Friend says I’ll be a D-cup For a baby. I wonder. Are letters assigned To pregnant bellies, too? Fragile new being, small mouth on my naked skin, when I get you I’ll write you a better Read more

The flame, plume of tortured wood-gas, whips his frenzy against the air Coming and going, like never, like always, always in transit, never the same No two fires are alike. I had to work to make this one burn. The wood was too large, too damp, too chilled. I piled on twigs and blew like Read more

Something (advances) Howl of a child timbre of a singer voiceprint of a lover catcall of an enemy hasp of a lover Tick of a biorhythm catcall of a memory resonant frequency of entrapment silent hum of fate. Slur of a drunk footsteps of a guitar creak of a tightrope twang of an enemy breathing Read more

I hate you. The stench of your lunch nauseates me. I want to break your pencils, crush your delicate models. Let me burn your dainty clothes. Let me near you! I’ll slash your glossy hair. Such fragile bones. Petite frame. I need to lift you, swing you, smash you against a wall, leave your pieces Read more

I cried when I left you. I whimpered Quiet bright tears etching the inside of my skull I cried when I realised you wouldn’t follow. I sobbed Heavy wet tears splattering the tiles of my kitchen I cried when I discovered I could live without you. I wept Dim orange tears tinting the curtains of Read more

Bunbury-Mandurah road smug watchful ignons, slim cyclops, nocturnal, lowercase janus: red eye, white eye, sentinels quickened by carlight, guard their edges, ignescent, torch our path: fire particles resident on white “i” posts. Read more