Poetry
Elegy for My Father’s Labour
Hardhat ∴ life preserver / Wrench ≈ bouquet / Number of days present < early morning disappearances / Length of visits with children ÷ reciting of letters from home / Approximate value...
Mind Control
A woman in pain will forget / to be kind, or clean. She will probe / the folds and ripples of her / cerebrum, she will feel / her brain floating like...
Tunnel
Inertia drags its feet. To be requires sweat. / We come out sluggish as slippers. / / It takes effort to scrape the ice off the windshield / of morning, to...
Spin Cycle, Cowley
Some desert John, locust-boned, / leans in the doorway, / / chamber-eyed laundrette / behind, chewing over / / the same thread husk. / He’s a coal / /...
Alterations of Every Description
Promises the sign over a tailor’s shop / but presumably sex changes, metamorphoses, translations & -figurations / / are excluded, including / having the life stabbed out of you, nothing alters...
Object #6
the centre. the image that holds. her figure. / ...
On leaving, my lover
unbraids soft neck garlic, detangles / the hairs with amateur cook precision to avoid / / flakes, crumbles. The upstairs neighbour is running / a bath for her disabled son. He...
Ruby Roses, Kiss Goodbye
You, who saved me from hardening, / let me not harden now / / but walk into the world, disarmed / yet escorted by these emissaries: / / two ruby...
Herschel Island
In my dream I am walking / on the edge / of the world. ...