Jackson

Waking on his narrow temporary bed, surprised without his face, he looks at me with unshuttered tenderness. I make us breakfast and we each continue with our work. Soon he shall be out there somewhere chasing some fresh and pretty girl He shall nuzzle into her, mouth and mind Outgrow her, chase another Or be… Read more

wanna be outta this chip- board decons- truction, this ar- id plane of rep- eated monoch- rome tags, rust, car- casses, wreck- age, raz- or sedges, death- wish trees, com- pacted, shallow, ac- id dirt, shat- tered stones, bone- dry names wanna pack up my collected and selected seeds, and those that have arrived in… Read more

brush with that nightskin this dayskin. tangential coatmerge. totem furs. chimpgirl. panther. chill chubby sunmemory, thinlimbed mist. faintly known. vibrational. space-hung. zone. locus. taint inspiration, carnal miasma. turning. pacing. turning. pacing. focus. flash flood of star-mangled breath just outside the scent markers of the gang boss just outside the territory of the tribe as they… Read more

(Released 2010 on Francis’s label Strange Famous Records.) I don’t have a ready genre slot in which to shove this, but there’s a Bill Hicks quote in the liner notes, so I had a good listen: Hicks knew what was missing, and he would’ve loved this. Spoken to souled grooves, following its own muse; say… Read more

24 May 2009 The magpie with his sleek black wings and soft white back hops onto the chair under the window, listens to me rehearsing. I look him in the eye and declaim at him. When I finish the poem he hops up onto the windowsill, a bold question. “Hey! What are you doing? You… Read more

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