This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
Its eyes are orange stones, staring nowhere and everywhere, hiding a mystery, a mind. Every feather that lines its back, creates its wings, defines its tail is black: an ancient and sacred darkness. Gripping the rim of the birdbath it stretches its Nick Cave neck and caws the old long notes that mark the morning. Read more
(London to Dublin 2005) Up like a shot off a shovel in Aer Lingus’s shamrock embrace seatfabric woven with the writings of Joyce and Yeats sky melds with sea in a one of blue plane if you fall fall now Captain’s longsentence voice how arr ye ladies and gentlemen welcome flight attendant you OK there Read more
if I give up, things will come right, so everyone saysif I tell you I have given up on youif your response to that is to rush joyfully into the distanceif I turn my head to hide my tearsif I walk away if I am quietif I do not speakif I walk for long enough Read more
Victorian writer Lisa Wardle has interviewed me on her blog “because writing is my vice”. I’m the first in her 2012 poets series. While you’re there, check out the novelists from 2011. Read more