Miniature Tiger  

Thursday, December 3, 2009

It rained all night
pattering on my pillow
a consistent buzz like
purring.
Velcro claws
catching
interrupt rhythmic
sleep. Finally
dawn streaks
through the sky
and
miniature tiger
gets her ambush.


My cat has her spaying operation today. I was interested in marking the occasion with a little ode because I am totally mushy on the sly. I looked up the collective nouns for tiger here .

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Wind up bird  

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Mechanical wings
laden with words.
She'll knock you for six,
she'll blow you away.

Quietly squeal queer bird.
Mechanical wings clipped
and words pirouette like feathers

or hard rain.

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Univocalism in I  

Thursday, October 8, 2009

I - nihilistic lyricist - find him
This 'I' is indivisibly criticising,
inviting irking crisis.
His dizzying impish grin
visibly minimising this.
Imbibing inky gin in my lips
I mimic gigglingly this smiling.
I try inflicting witticisms,
inviting his kiss. My wish is
lignifying.
I wish inciting rhythmic, skirmish rising,
Him - dizzyingly writhing in divinity -
twitching his virility in my lips,
In this vicinity I am his.
I'm trickishly slicing lyrics in
his thirsty kiss -
citing him inspiring.
His thrills stirring in my tits
I jitteringly sing;
twinning drinking jism with my
stringy sighing
igniting
firing.

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Empty  

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Smoking with my heroes  

Saturday, August 1, 2009

I've always liked how smoking sounds
said the poet to the thief
in dancing tendrils
on a bank under
rain. It drizzlingly
mimics
the sounds of small papers
crinkling around their leafy delights
and lights
catching her cheeks.
I check -
she's succeeded.
She sharply sucks
and I foolishly jibber
I write because I have to.

And I don't even know if she smokes.

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Rowboat  

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Rowboat

Clinging to this rock
can’t see in the dark.
Hear sick
white horses
galloping unshackled
and words
bend
truth like
waves bend
wood
on the rattling waters.

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We are friendly  

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

We are friendly

our knitted sweaters

mask

from the rain

muse sings

and strings

make pictures

mask

from the rain


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Blippo  

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Ein anderes 

Stück Ihrer Flattern 
auf meine Seite. 
Partikeln machen 
Töne Cellos und schnuren machen das Bild 
Ihrer.

Another piece

of you flutters
onto my page.
Particles make
sounds
cellos and strings make
the picture
of you.


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Immortality  

Friday, February 20, 2009

The Witch of Words


She'll look you in the eyes
and smile as
she casts her spell
and turns you
into poetry.
Now you are immortal.



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Eira  

Saturday, February 14, 2009

...choose your own story



The thick snow covers over the capitalist state we’re in. Even the roads with their etched lines of a thousand cars look beautiful, magical under snow. The marbled sky reflects the undulations beneath. Where there’s been snowdrift; ridged banks form; mimicking the hills in the background. Inhaling the air cools your whole body like pulling on a menthol cigarette or the sharp almost pain from sucking those eucalyptus throat sweets. There’s a hazy sunshine powering through the cloud coverage, enough to warm the exact spot on his shoulder blade where beneath the winter coat his freckles form mathematical dot-to-dots made up of little isosceles. Her nose wrinkles like a rabbit when she thinks of this little secret to his skin that so few other people must know. They walk with carelessness and ease, despite the black slush and its icy counterparts. It gets harder going when they’re walking along in the deepest bit – the bank beside the road. The increase in the leg work results in deepened breathing providing the soundtrack to the afternoon. An engine cuts into the staggered breaths.


If they hitch a lift go to 2             If they jump into the snow go to 3


2     Ha! Finally! He’d said that something would come along. The car was rolling slowly, all too aware of the hazardous surroundings, so it wouldn’t be hard to attract the driver’s attention. He waves his arms in the same way he dances; jolting elbows here and there. Somehow it seems to have worked and the darkened window buzzes down, replacing the monochrome image with a tired looking face hiding amongst salt and pepper stubble.

Any chance of a lift to the next garage mate?” He extends the jerry can; shaking it slightly as the viscous liquid circles the very corner and makes a dry rasping rattle.

There's one just a couple of miles down that way…” Says salt and pepper, indicating with his gloved hand over a snowy pile that presumably has a hill under it somewhere.

Sure… Jump in.”


If the driver helps them to their car go to 4                        If he takes a detour go to 6


3           They exchange glances as the vehicle approaches. From the snow to each other and then to the quickly shortening road before them, as if following a tennis match. And without speaking they both seem to know what the other’s thoughts are and make a leap in tandem from the road into the powdery white bank. The driver has a grin on her face as she speeds off into the slush and our girl is laughing uncontrollably as she flails about making a backwards snow angel in the deepest snow she’ll ever see. And our boy is snuffling – a kind of laugh hidden by the inhalation of snowflakes and their interference with his respirations. And they kiss in the snow and the laughter, and try to stand up once again. This snow is knee deep and harder to manoeuvre through so with little grace or finesse they return to vertical and carry on walking towards the lake. Around the forest in the distance there’s a pink glow echoing the colour of our girl’s cheeks.


If they make love in the snow go to 5                   If she tells him a secret go to 7


4           They both sit in the back of the Jeep and their eyes occasionally meet with their quiet driver. The snow is really coming down outside and our girl pulls her sleeves around herself and sits on them until she resembles a sailor's knot – all bound up. The silence isn't really an awkward one. They're listening to a French radio station about Arthur Rimbaud '...j'adissi je me souviens bienma vie était un. festin où s’ouvraient...' Her gaze falls to the dusty ledges beside the window sill. The skeletons of a few bugs frame the darkened glass and she can't help but wonder what this stranger's tale is and what brought him to her and her brother. As the garage comes into sight over the hill, her eyes light up at the thought of being alone with this dark and quiet French man. Her brother gets out of the car shaking his jerry can again, the way she recalled him shaking his cup for milk when they were small. Now was her chance and she slid easily through the gap in the Jeep to sit beside the stranger.

Je vous ai attendu ange” he murmurs. I've been waiting for you, angel. She hushes him with one finger to his mouth, as she presses the button to release his seatbelt and takes his hand to lead him away from the warm engine. That could wait.     Go to 5


5          They hold hands as they walk along the lane; scooping up the occasional ball of powder and scrunching it together to form a loose snowball to throw. There's a tightening in the air as the sun hides behind an enormous fluffy cloud that hangs in the sky in all its pathetic fallacy. As they pass fields of virgin snow both pairs of eyes scan for an entrance to this magical land. He points to a slight incline leading to a gate. Either side of the gate are layers of barbed wire clumsily wrapped over stone-walling. The gate itself free of the ivy-like wire, but lopsided and standing on one leg like a bar stool in a lazy French café. Looks as good a place as any, they silently agree. The track is deep, but not slippery. Rooting one leg under the cross-piece on the third bar he swings his other leg over the gate, which wobbles emphatically and threatens to throw him off like a bucking bronco. He jumps into the claggy snow the other side as she attempts to follow him – a little more shakily. They walk together through the deep snow; kissing and laughing like children. The cold air goes unnoticed and she pushes him into the soft white blanket. He sees the birds huddled and gathered on the wires above him. She sees the reflection of the white hills and clouds in his eyes flashing white as she makes love to him for the first time in the snow... THE END.


6 The clouds over the hill tell darker tales of rain rolling in from the coast and lost highways. Our boy sits upfront with Salt and Pepper and our girl bundles into the back with the ragged sheep dog with odd coloured eyes. One pale blue like those of her beloved Daddy and glaciers and summer skies; the other rich brown like her own or a fresh cup of coffee. She feels uneasy and can't say why so her fingers bend down to entwine the rope-like fur of the dog, which she nervously winds round her snow cracked fingers and unravels over and over. Our man is sure they should have passed the garage by now and is surreptitiously peering out of the window to try and gain some recognition of where they might be. He hears the dreaded CLUNK of the door-locks going down and knows that his breathing is getting erratic with the fear of what may be next. The absurdity of the situation is almost laughable. If he was watching a film, he would be screaming at them before they'd even got in the car to stay away! Stranded on the moors in the snow with no fuel for their car and no idea where it might be now. What choice did he have but to trust the first stranger that came along? Thoughts colliding up inside his head make him have to catch his breath. If anything happens to my little girl...

And in the back our girl looks back seeing the snow disappear as though a dream was melting away behind her. She looks at her Dad and winks. This is the signal he has been waiting for and he stalls the car almost immediately to reach for the chloroform saturated rag he had prepared earlier.

I told you, babe, you won't have to call no-one else Daddy ever again after today.” THE END



7 She wonders if she's ever seen him look so beautiful. Being with him in the snow gives each of them a glimpse into what it would have been like if they'd known each other as children. They come to the brow of the hill and she reaches for his hand and places it on her not yet showing tummy. “You're going to make a brilliant Dad”, she says and his eyes light up with orange particles that glow. Eira is Welsh for snow. THE END

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secrets  

Thursday, February 5, 2009

in the palm of your hand


Lyre bird calls
to tell us lies
and you, my muse,
have amused me
with the morning coffees 
and coughing chorus
and that talk of soldiering 
with the solder.
You keep secrets in the
palm of your hand
like little scars
and acronyms
and I'm not sure
you'll open them 
to me...

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Snows and hangovers  

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

It's cold out there...


Your eyes might have glaciers in them
too cold for a swim 
today.
In Tarifa 
the roads melt
in the summer.
You're like a snowflake in a hot world.

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EdizKarenska  

Monday, January 19, 2009

Sending songs

ooh soldier
burnt himself
on the solder
fighting broken
wires
in a battle he can't lose.

Iamb

excited
to see what's next

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swigs  

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Swigs


Clumsily swooping 
in an evening sky;
there go the swigs - 
gulp them down.
Too fast to feel 
much.

(noun) A large and hurried swallow.

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Found Poem: Swarm  

Monday, January 12, 2009

Found Poem: Swarm

They drop
like stones from the sky;
collective intelligence
tantalising a vortex
of information. Caustic
unison shifts shape with
beautiful manoeuvres.
Perfect swarm circles
shadows.

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'L' Dictionary Poem  

Sunday, January 11, 2009

'L' Dictionary Poem


Rest in perjury
duplicitous lickspittle;
pass the tongue
a periodical use of
Liebfraumilch.
Servile libertine
reside in mendacity.
An eyelid, 
flattering lightly around
the wood.
Living imprisonment
during vitality
continues to solo.
Be buried inexactitude.

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Watchin' you dance  

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Watchin' you dance


See you across fro' me
an' I come 
over all nervous
an' clumsy.
Droppin' my
consonants
on the floor.

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New Year  

Friday, January 9, 2009

New Year

I wanted to hold you 
in the night;
kiss away your tears
and tell you i was
sorry
I couldn't hold you
at christmas
but every time
I looked over
it 
wasn't
you
I was holding.

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Bent, Oregon  

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Bent, Oregon

Came to bent
at twenty-seven.
Hostile
eyes met my
stride
he/she, ladyboy
geezerbird,
silent questions
is it the one?

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Encumbered  

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Encumbered



You asked me if

I love you

butterflies rising from

a pyramid of

self doubt

feels empty

and sick

concurrently

encumbered.

I dare you to love me.

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A New Day  

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

a new day

The day begins on orange
particles
and sunfire
burns the metallic
you always said
you didn't believe
in forever
tread only on silent
memories

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I wrote  

Monday, January 5, 2009

Half sonnet: I wrote


I wrote a poem today.
It’s not about you;
I’ve been hiding the ones
that are
scraps of truth
and memories
evade me

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Feeling the music  

Sunday, January 4, 2009

feeling the music


She stood
eyes closed
and pure ecstasy 
written upon her face.
Both arms outstretched;
one hand placed flat against
my guitar
the other gripping
your double bass.
Nothing stood between
us  - no sound
only delight as
for the first time
she could feel the music.

This was inspired by my best friend telling me a beautiful story about meeting a deaf lady in the pub on New Year's Eve. During their time together lots of laughs were shared - mainly at the expense of a friend'a drunken karaoke attempt. The lady and her partner were invited back to the party where an impromptu jam took place. To feel involved she did exactly as described above and could feel the vibrations of the music! Such a lovely image! Thanks Luke x

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Love sonnet to Time  

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Love sonnet to Time

Tread only on silent memories;
the fish is out of water.
In the back seat of a car
a lullaby is whispered.
An abacus counts in a 
bedroom. One after
one. Click.
A consciousness of many;
tangled feet on desert 
paths.

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