Jackson

ah coffee & chocolate! perfect bittersweet like … like love, children, songs        like the earth, like battle,        like weariness, fullness, completion like: Is that it? Is that all? Is that my name? Is that the end of it & the strength of it, is that the church, the oneness? the chocolate is all Read more

The fisherwoman in her boat under the sky, deep blue above, deep blue below, hat salty, skin rippled, waiting, the fisherwoman sings. A soft song o my love, o my lord, carry me, float me, rock me, rescue me a soft song for the fish and the sky and the broad ocean and all the Read more

He takes off the glasses, the mask that fails him. His two blue eyes mock hers. He is a smiling imp in black. He moves closer. The fiddler plays a reel. His lips are like smoked sugar, his tongue an instrument, his stubble a burnt field. She is dying. She opens her eyes. His are Read more

“Mummy, read me a story” keeps me home. “Mummy, play with me” jails me. “Mummy, feed me” grounds me. “Mummy, hug me” imprisons me. Everyone I want to meet is conferencing at the other end of the earth, discussing, jargon slipping deliciously from their mouths, thrilling to the shock of physical presence, clamour, colour, eyes, Read more

the leaves        unrequited love the bark        unrequited love dappled sunlight        unrequited love sweet fruit        unrequited sweet air        love breath of birdsong        only love mint moonlight        one true love night forest        one true love furred flicker        one true love ferned place rain mist silence silence full of Read more

The feet of the cities are in your mouth, the eyes of two cities        one new, one old the mud of two rivers, the earth of two lands,        the brownstone, the lodestone. The tongues of the cities are in your feet, the aches of two cities,        ache of place, ache of time, Read more