Covered

Winter's kiss is fatal — 
she brings with her a
wrath of unbearable cold
or maybe it's bearable
and I've just grown thin-skinned
in my older…

Resolution Rummy

New Year. How Will You Play the Game?

How mainstream media categorises rape, assault and abuse

5 Things it gets so wrong

Violet, My Dead Cat. Old Age. The New World. Central Park. Scattered Leaves From a Distracted Wordsmith’s Notebook…

I Called For Death in Days Disastrous

I called for death in days disastrous

An easy fix to forget that mattress

An easy fix to forget the blackness

January Morning

A haiku to celebrate the slant of winter sun

Sun Sill

Sun sill, a feast of pain. Pain celebration
Exults and sings upon the sill of light,
A daylong wonder wain, canonization
Of stringent star…

The Ocean’s Daughter (or: The Gift Tattoo)

How to distinguish shell pink from shell blue:
 Her spilled-milk skin’s both one, the…

The Eye

Tactile sky, a child’s bedroom wall at night.
A blue star like a gas fire pilot light.
Wallpaper frieze, or drooping elm tree clusters…

Plane Tree

Soft white winter sky,
Flesh of a woman’s thigh.
Plane tree smooth and white,
Amorous delight.