Tuesday 12 November 2024

MIGRAINE HINTERLANDS




the plum trees
mad canopy

e x p l o d e s  
across the northern sky

& the lawns a green 
i have never seen

~

now i sweat blood

only just
this side 
of proverbial

when i try to think 








Monday 11 November 2024

HIFI INCLUSION





listening
to
excellent music

makes me excellent too

&
i am included now
when my appetites 
had hit the wall








Friday 8 November 2024

MAGRITTE FIST




now the day is unday

cant-think chunk-blocks
like thick glass walls

& no flow - zenless

cos something bad happened
&
you
are
uncoping / clunky
in
the
wretched immediacy
of
its
magritte fist







Thursday 7 November 2024

EGGSHELL CHILDREN

 



i saved a snail
i saw struggling
on the hot cement 

&
wished
it
was
all the eggshell children
of
the
dangerous
world

but what can a poor boy do
but listen to a rock n roll band ?










Wednesday 6 November 2024

TO PARAPHRASE DYLAN THOMAS A BIT





we do go gently 
into 
an anticyclonic gloom

straw grass 
razed to stubble
inside the electric tether

~

meteors & rage 
forked diluted
by bluelight nightlife

frail deeds 
forgotten drown
in the greenwashed bay








Tuesday 5 November 2024

BIG ISSUES

 



make me feel
all
dumb
numb
&
down-low backwoods crazy 

like on the edge of panic
but in a valium bath







Monday 4 November 2024

SAM BROWNE STYLE (TV FRAG POP)




shoulder bag

 & belted raincoat


tugged snug

 sam browne style

 
about the waist of the spy








Friday 1 November 2024

MORNING REPORT 105





autumn memories
are layered up in me
like an onion

& the late sun
like knives
will dice it

into an album 
of dusk cafes
& numb commutes