Jackson

Poem made from word hoard. owl sacrament / ancient sacrament / mother sacrament … Read more

A concert dream! / I can stand close to my idols / immobilised by the crush / or watch from far away / and dance / / I chose to dance / in the end / I chose to dance Read more

In response to “Learning the Name” by Ursula K. Le Guin Read its name in English, such as crow or Swainson’s thrush. Read its name in Latin. Look at a picture of a bird of its species and sex. Write an equation to model its flocking behaviour. Add its decaying nest to your collection. Find… Read more

Among the hundreds,      one leaf hanging. Pink hibiscus      flowers, just showing the sun their red      tongues, their pollen-blobs. Morning sun, the      most lovely: that angle of the rays, and the dust not      yet as risen as it is at evening. The world,      the hibiscus bush, the city: cleansed by darkness.      The light making a communion… Read more

what tiny wants to put here for a moon First published in Uneven Floor, July 2016 Read more

The horse snorts and bucks and pulls at the reins But I am not the horse I’m not his rider either jouncing her brain up and down trying to recite calm words I am the trees and posts beside the path, the stones, the earth beneath the hooves, the sky within which he moves Not… Read more