Jackson

1990 Adam is walking, tentatively, but not to my outstretched hands. He is saying a few words, but my name’s not one of them. His smile is a green light, his voice is a windchime, but he’s always asleep when I call. I’m sending him a gift that his mother will like. 1991 Adam my Read more

Bald is pinkish, minimal, contained, defined. Hairy is dark, lavish, uncontrolled, soft-edged. Bald wears steel-rimmed spectacles and adds up numbers. Hairy has reflector sunglasses and bellows songs. Bald enslaves his wife. Hairy trashes televisions. Bald crushes spiders. Hairy keeps snakes. Walled Bald wears flannel trousers. Lairy Hairy stretches lycra tights. Businesslike Bald has a mortgaged Read more

The blue sea is. and the gulls. again. The beachline laps. Lap, lap; slap, lap. The boatlights. The full black sky. Night extant. The blue sea is. The formless null connects to all. The sand. The glimmerlit crystals. The boatlights. The full black sky. Night extant. The blue sea is. and the gulls. again. Read more

I couldn’t think with that selling blaring on. I wanted to build a thought construction. A shape I knew would last. A model to keep. But the brute football, Coca-Cola, cheap talk, stale drama Cast-plastic quick-fix trinkets Kept breaking in. I stood there, trying to beat it. Fighting hard. Steadying a portion of thought while Read more

I am unbreakable. I am built of crystals of words and I am unshakable. I am made of modern metal and I am unbendable. I am sheathed in thin Teflon. Nothing sticks. You are broken. You were made of small twigs and now you are broken. You were struck and shattered. You are unmendable. You Read more

the bush smells        sweet and wet the coffee smells        perfect the river smells        of mud and marron the sky smells of stars        and the grass        smells of grass. First published in Pixel Papers Read more