terça-feira, 31 de março de 2026

Arriving late

 Rules are rules.
For me, for pools for fuss.
For sunscreen and chlorine.
for sunshine and room fluff dust.

For a grin that makes its way from the kitchen to the bedroom.
for a game that young people play on dates to provoke or groom.
Rules are rules.
Don't they just arouse us.

Our fears and turn ons have rules.
that run around like maniac adolescents.
wreaking havoc with our patience.
So when i arrived late well I broke a rule.

There's no coming back from that.
Everyday is an adventure.
The sparkling consequences.
Turn me into something I wasn't before.

Raking leaves with fake smile.
Fish and wine.
rules for restaurants.
ways you dine.


Omnem spem relinque

 I approached the distant town gloomily.
Full of all of those old illusions from the life behind me.
The pines tall and sinister looked down sizing me up.
I kicked a stone and cursed.

I walked toward the small town.
The orange lights still lighting up the valley.
Dawn hadn't yet arrived... And it never will.

I look up at the city archway between the engravings of two brave vultures.
The words- Omnem spem relinque. Were written.
I spoke the words aloud as I trudged in.

My old life gone, Somehow I walked out of a dream.
Of transforming times and places.
And now I stood here in tattered clothes.
In this strange little town.

The buildings were mixed between ancient and new.
The people regarded me as If they knew me.
I approached the big grey building at the center of town.

The red man invited me in.
he said he had some things to go over with me.
Wonderful teeth and manners.

Find the pain fulfillers bring them back.
Give yourself to the cause.
Fires burst forth from his desk and I was engulfed.
I transformed into something so hideous, so damned.

I asked, "How am I supposed to go back to earth like this?"
He said, "It's just the truth no more no less. This is what you are on the inside."
I felt the burning through all of me.
I felt the condemnation in divine pulses through my temples.

"I thought I was christian."
"Did you actually forgive, did you actually help anyone for that matter?"
"No, I just sang and danced and said nice things."
"Exactly so serve us now, you were faithless. Completely self absorbed."

I woke up in the parliament building with a list in my hand.
"Atleast I had a purpose" I said out loud to myself.
A voice came from inside the walls. "Omnem spem relinque."


Host me upstairs then

 Host me upstairs
I'm coming to town
A thousand arms I'm grabby

walk and see
Just for me
the street is full
it's dead empty

I feel the breeze
Thoughts and feelings
tingling

Who are you
Who is me

Host me upstairs 
I'm coming to town
a thousand charms

oversweetening the room
Resist me with your words
Don't let me in

I feel the breeze
as you kick me out
Onto the street

The hush is fictional observers
Holding back a thousand giggles
it's dead empty

Who are you
Why invite then expel?
what do you want from me?



You'll Fidget

 Choose the corner table
If my eyes are intense
If my voice changes
I'll order

You'll fidget
Ah nervousness
I'll steady you
tell you a secret

So pretend to be surprised
Play with your hair
I'll wrap an idea around
You'll be impressed

atleast show signs of impression
I'll point a way forward
Euphoria will get the best of us
I'll recommend a time and a place

Where you will become something more
Where i will have meaning
you'll fidget
I'll steady your hands

I'll tell you a secret that will cut through reality
I'll chase after you if you beg me to
I'll wrap you in my ideas until they become your skin
so that you may stand naked before me always

You will be cleaned

 After the desert
You will have food water and rest
You will be cleaned and care for
You will be accepted

For I will take you 
Like the wounded bird
The stray dog
But your values a hundred stronger

My attention will heal you
of all the road has done
I will smooth you
If you give yourself over

For the desert and it's obscured paths
Is merciless on you
Isolating and taunting you
It is your hell on earth

So I will take you 
Give you a place for repouse
For the desert is my back yard
It's depth and distance shallow and near to me

They err in calling me simple

segunda-feira, 30 de março de 2026

Summons of the profane quintet

 The shadows of the mind come to the forefront in whooshing sublime
A whirlwind of destructive force sent forth from the recesses of my mind
They arrive landing infront of my eyes dressed in squid ink purple
Priests of a realm beyond the abyss from the chasm of disturbance

Each priest of the five makes their promises dreamily
Overwhelming promise of power offered up to me
They attempt to tender a forbidden contract
Their certainty and glee each clause a fact

I look at the terms to ascertain if it's worth them
Their devlish forms and seductive wiles are unnerving
I'm the shark who attacks from below toward the surface
Then i understand what it is that's making me nervous

I can't have masters
Only loyal servants

domingo, 29 de março de 2026

Tomato soup and life lessons

 Eric got into his 60s.

 By that time his grandson was 10 years old.

 He would visit his grandfather after school.
 They would talk about some of their future plans.

 But what the grandson wanted to know was if there was tomato soup.
 And if it was going to be good.
And so the old man prepared tomato soup for me his Grandson.
 It was sour and tasted bad, so I poured it out in the kitchen sink.
 
And then he almost slapped me.
Because there wasn't enough to go around in his time.
Anyway, my mistake.
And I stuck by with him. He learned from all of his mistakes, namely an amputated leg, and I learned from mine.

 I took on those lessons, and I became wiser. As he lived here, some of his ideals went into my brain, went into my mind. sure, you could say I learned from them.

Where are your manners?

 Politeness speaks to the future

It has a voice for the modern.


Politeness guides you to possibility.



But vulgarity is baseness.

Vulgarity is primitive.

It is held and echoed from the dirty street drains of centuries gone.


That's why you see old men who don't use any filter when speaking.

And go about their business offending and clumsying their way through the misery.


Those old men reach back into the past with grazed knees from worshipping concrete.

Their sense of honor and pride walks into the slaughter chute.

Here they pretend it's their courage not their resignation.


Why yes the axe head is prefereable to the drip old men.

Bloodied steel instead of a thousand days on a stretcher!

But you don't live nobly, you just bleed your expectations across my carpet!


So where are your fucking manners?

Autumn's got a thing for you

 So summer really likes you.
Summer has a thing for you.
Summer imagines itself your hula hoop.

But Autumn is infatuated with you.
Fell in love and falls in love with you each day.

But winter, winter doesn't like you.
Winter seems to have something against you.
It tells Summer and autumn that you are no good for them.

Winter tells them all to walk away.
Except spring, Winter's arch rival.
And your vitality is likened to spring.

Winter tells the months that you are not good enough for anyone.
Winter is so pale, cold and waning.
Autumn is bronze and rich and so complex

Autumn is all of the colors and flavors
Secrets the equinoxes know deep down
And the solstices know only by word

Autumn is all of these things.
Autumn has such a devotion for you.
The rest of the year envies Autumn

Autumn is the marinade of life
The sour rot and the sweet emergencial new growth
Autumn fell in love with you

Which Norn feeds your gaunt spirit

 It's set out infront of you like a banquet
The knife and fork
it is the brain and body
The food on your plate

Your present day
better ask yourself a question
Which course are you on
Which swirl inside the knitted norn

The thread of time
Your existence attempting to align
Finishing dessert?
or just starting on the entree?

The four corners of insanity

 The ins and outs he said
Rabbit holes and dreary prairies
Bogs and forest noises echoing as if in conversation
The ins and outs he said

The obvious, the unmentionable
And the hidden secrets only few will tell
All just thought patterns dominating the mind
each one accumulating unto, or dissapating from itself

The duality of In
Of out
Through your moldable mind
The ins and outs of planet earth

Tomorrow is incomprehensible to you
Lost memories of yesterday
Sanity cracks like a log on the fire
Flames running in and out 

Wood to ember
To coal
To ash
All through out

Inside you 
outside you
behind you
infront of you



sábado, 28 de março de 2026

Bending consciousness

 Inspired to enchant
Severe and magic spell void wisdom
Digest the earth entire
Digest the power... mind

A million interpretations of the meaning
Each one a surreal gift moving out of itself
Like a serpent losing it´s skin
following a chaotic jungle path

The promise to chosen few
Furnish freedom from within
The axe to massacre illusion
Love to grow


Pre workout

 Change back into yourself, wonderful cafeteria
open yourself don't shut me off
Don't become the nurse or the server
don't overlift

don't be bloated by life's excess
Don't be chased by any man
Not even me
Just perfect that which is good already

Don't seek it out
Let it come
We human ambush better than we hunt
anyone would be lucky to get caught in your sticky trap 

The town of Leslimb

 I spent the day walking a thin dirt road
Night came and I knew I would need somewhere to stay.
I saw A side road up ahead and investigated, there were no signs.
But down the side road there were lights, a few houses. Maybe this will do.
I looked down, stepped forward and continued walking. I'll fing somesthing, I'll find somewhere to sleep.
I came to a roundabout with a few empty buildings. A big barn with an open door.
I'll sleep here. I set out the blanket I had lay down and dreamed of all those wonderful things I'm not allowed to have.
Then I woke to an old man looking in. He said to me "So you found the barn" A sunny morning, way too bright for my eyes that morning.
I said to the man "Well I guess I did."

I stepped out and observed the town. att he far end there were no houses just a grass berm with a charming little well, built with attractive rocks with one of those tiny rooves.
I looked back to the small township. It looked like it had been a tourist town with an old tourist bus parked perfectly against a rusted blue bus stop.
A plus size woman in her fifties with brown straggly hair and reddish skin, it looked like she was ushering me over, but she didn't seem to have the energy. Through one caravan window it looked like other women were in there. It was like a brothel on wheels perhaps. There was a fruit stall with a husband and wife selling fruits and a few vegetables. They looked a little more normal. Dark skinned and short stature, but more expressive, evidently happy.
Behind the bus stop was a clean and very welcoming looking tourist shop. It looked out of place. Everything else was dusty, Rusted and unclean. I looked through the window like a child at his first mall experience. There were soft toys and books so well exhibited under such good lighting it made me doubt the place was real at all. Felt real enough.
There was a butcher working out of a raised stall, probably something he built himself, He was grilling meat. The aroma coming out of there was incredible. Naturally I asked for a small bag of it. It was cheap enough and the coins in my pocket easily afforded me it.
I opened the bag and started to eat, as I walked away from the shop the meat started tasting raw.
A frustration, even an anger at being conned into raw meat took me over, I started to walk back to the stall to complain. with every foot fall toward teh old shack the paper bag in my hand warmed up a little more. By the time i was in earshot of the butcher, i could pull a piece of meat out and see it was completely grilled and smelled delicious.
An awkward tall and very slow speaking teenager came out of nowhere and approache me, same reddish tinge as if the sun was just a little too abrasive in the region.
"You need to eat it near the cart, otherwise it goes bad." I laughed at the absurdity of what he said.
But just like something magnetic losing it's pull, when i walked away it got cold, and when I walked back it heated up.
"Thank you for the heads up." I told him. he tried to press out a smile on his face. I knew he was expressing an attempt at joy.
I passed the mechanic's shops. It was empty, Then a small volkswagon beetle came out of nowhere and parked infront of me. Three dwarvish mechanics got out, all dressed in their blue stained overalls, echoing the color and rust of the bus stop. The first one that appeared had discolored skin on his face and signs of a cured goiter below the jaw. But he walked more confidently. The other two followed in behind. They waved and regarded me as naturally as if I'd been there an eternity. But we'd never met.
I had this feeling I needed to leave. Stop my little excursion and get back to the hotel in the other town.
I walked toward the distant pine trees that marked the cross roads.
As I approached it suddenly became dark. I checked my watch it was 5,14am around the time i need to get up when I'm working. Atleast I'm out of that strange town.
I turned up the road I had originally came from trudging on for kilometers. The sun came up and the heat of the day with it. I saw people working th fields on the road side, tending their crops.
I stopped by. "Hi, can you tell me what the name of the town off the cross roads back there is called?"
The wife absconded, but the husband showed more interest, he looked up at me enthusiastically, but also a little worried.
"Do you mean Leslimb? That's not really a town, there right." He said.
"Well of course it's a town I've just been inside it." I told him.
"Were things strange there, Did you notice anything, not quite right, time of day, a strange tourist shop, weird happenings."
 "What if I did" I said nervously.
"You were in purgatory, the real one."
"What do you mean?" I said concerned.
"When you walked out did the time change either getting later or earlier?"
He just looked at my face.
"You ate the food didn't you?"
Suddenly his wife was by his side, 
"Just let the man go about his business." She said.

An icy feeling started in the bend of my neck and slowly melted into spine.
A tear drop fell from my eye.
It was the same couple who worked the fruit and vegetable stall back in that town.

sexta-feira, 27 de março de 2026

The thickness of a sad existence

you are a teacher but you should have been a nurse
The thickness of this invention
you come upon a fantasy well ordered
you had an insight and beckoned

Then you reel me in like im some sort of marlin
your existance is the fishmarket
The knife and the frozen violence
Oh bring yourself to self pity

shoulders like these, just for tears
Just for worry
i feel the desperation
The race to consolidate it all

The thickness of your existence inside locked places
Dark and hostile my precious pretty one
Your parents expectations crushing down
The trapped existance making you a deviant of all things

shoulders like these grow to hold your head
Sadness splashing out of your skull
Appearances and colors dance for these
Then back to sadness sweet sweet void


That burning ambition

 Oh Rubi my ambition
It is a fire ball eating us both up
In flame and tongue and unearthly desire
Oh Rubi I devour

The office is shattered
Employment to administration
To oversee what you are all doing
more human ambition machine

Rubi you are not sure
Then it's washing clothes
And I've been through it with you
Until the water comes out dirty

you renew the obsession
What am I but ambition hovering
What am i an extinguished soul
Just tweaking through the dawn

Rubi you made it all up in your head
If you had to give any sort of account
It would read like a love puppy letter on a serviette
One i'd have to hide to retain your pride

SO as I take the manipulated and pu the city to fire
there will be no more, even colleagues and esttemed friends
Will perish in the fires as the city burns down wave after wave
SO it's farewell you little jewel the ashes will adjust the PH

The smoke will block out the sun


Caps and aeroplanes

 success came in pairs and triples

With motivational hats and aeroplane sweets 

eyes agree and its competition oh my

the eldest is the heir


the rest we will play by air

panels are white and concrete rich

you need a spotlight a skater and high performing niche

I want to give you a carpark of promises


Coastal winds bluster and make marks on the clouds
populations of perfectionists balance the plane's landing
I get a fail and tossed off the rocks into the sea
an alcoholic with no potential


They sit in the sun watching the cricket match these are the children of tomorrrow we care about

success is a super computer for bragging or bringing your false confidence into reality

Twins figure it out and highflyers know how to manipulate the results

it s a friendly place in the success lounge



Golden Dunedin sunset

 Her name was written on the sunset
In golden cloud letters
What a thing to have the sky advertise this woman
and the clouds dance and merge to exalt her

Yellow cast over the Dunedin beach
Their short summer
An orgasm of days
A broken name

A wistful afternoon
fragments of myself rising
becoming part of the overhead
ending in the day itself

Steep streets and powerful memories
make reality so intense
The golden sundown with the letters disappearing
Though I will know your name was once there

Te aro party

 I went in to the old flat in wellington
A few people sleeping on the floor
They were broken toys
No longer functional in a tidy world

Their addictions and traumas loud and painful
The hateful stayed outside of the party
In a sports car repeating slogans
taking their anti grief medication

That ealy morning the girls were traveling back
Back to their homes far away the fantasy was over
Their cars were so packed their faces expressionless
I thought I was dsad and they just reflected it in a wordless conversation

quinta-feira, 26 de março de 2026

The big bang

 I feel the universe screaming right now
A thousand images the same reflecting back
This is inifinity, this is the appearance of power
I feel the universe screaming

The heat of atomic bombs in my palms
i feel the push and the pull
I feel I belong to the two
Will you condemn me when I show you I am ambidextrous

Will you need to be convinced
Or will you flow with it
letting the small mind pass
So that the big idea can take us over for months

Smother our reality and hopes and fears
leave us aroused for the rest of our lives
Is it comfortable in there all shut
Why don't you let me in

an explosion must take place

leaving sleep

 I coughed and spluttered and reached for my alarm as it sounded
The disorientation of of exiting slumber clouds me
I fumble my phone- where am I? Who am I?
There's a crashing inside of my head

An assembling of my outside reality
It all screamed at me big waves of loud milk
Splashing across my face the alarm still bleeting
Like all the sheep I forgot to count

I forgot that warm alluring dream I slipped out of
Now out of reach, it never happened
Except it did I just cannot retrace it
Cannot bring it back to my surface of awareness

So I press the alarm button and it stops
I wobble on early legs like a daunted toddler
I grab the necessary and make my gentle way
To my office at the end of the corridor

And then I'll let breakfast console me from the lost dream
A hot coffee to throw me like a skipping stone into the body of the day
I will pretend I know this body I find myself in
I will pretend I care about purposes I had invented before yesterday

quarta-feira, 25 de março de 2026

stomach earth

 clouds and digestion
I'm walking metres from the forest
I see the abandoned mansion
I see the river follow me

I walk over grass and familiar hills
My hair is grass
My skin the earth
My love the sky

Clouds are passing
I am digesting you

Staircase of my name

 I climb this wooden staircase
The empty spaces between the slats of wood
Call my name, with each step up I look between
and hear the voice say -up one further

When I feel the slat under me
Shaky and unstable
I transition my weight to the next slat
Hearing calling far below

Like ghost parents
shouting toward a baby at risk
I was that baby
Not big enough to get to the top

Not small enough to fall through the slat
Just big enough to hear the subtle applause
As I go from one slat to the next
each one creaking my name

terça-feira, 24 de março de 2026

That Sturdy Cactus

 Bulging out of the sidewalk saying- how is it?
A metamorphic sex toy scaring grandads and grannies.
Taking up too much space so the dogwalker struggles to slip the gap.
The columns climb up to block out the neighbors windows.

When it's wet the fat thug doesn't droop or even yellow
When it's dry the thing shines and keeps growing anyway
While the rest of the vegetation dies off in the heat of the day
It just seems to stand prouder as if imitating a champion

It hangs out and waves
You never see it complain
Doesn't need twigs or leaves
Doesn't need fertile land
The modified stem grows out of porous neutral sand

Jeanine


 I saw you scratching words into the desk, while Mr Robinson wasn't looking.

Freckles never looked good on any girl, except for you Jeanine.
Blond pony tail, you knew how to dance. I was too goofy to ask you teach me, therefore I'd have a reason to rub up against you. To question your questioning eyes.
Where did you get those scissors and hide them before Old man Robinson sees, he's got a screw loose and he will break something if he sees. If he sees you scratching up the desk, he'll kill you.
Anyhow I'm passing you this note, so that you can have my permission to humiliate me infront of the whole class. Because I want to kiss your face. I want to kiss your lips.
I'm sick of being young and coming up short. I want a young and wild girl like yourself to kiss and get lost in. I want to take you to the backfield, just to see if you won't let me in for just a time.
Share secrets, share silly young notions of love. Hold hands, touch.
Give me my 101 in romance as you probably have a better understanding.
Or even better let me sit closer to you in class. So that I might touch your hair, or at the very least warn you before our tyrant of a teacher catches you scratching words into the desk.
Somehow I could see your hostility, but it didn't put me off. I just put it down to that fighting spirit. Growing up in small towns must be torture for beautiful girls like you.
What a miracle it was to know you, in our small pathetic town where everyone judged everything. 

Shutting up

 People would do well to shut up.
To stay trap clamped
To politely abstain from their yarns
Their rants and laughter

People can make it easier on the world
By shutting up all of you can cure the world
Words spoken spurted through lips
Tongue so proud, tone intact

But forget all that, use ears
Or eyes to read these letters into words
These cattle into herds
This sewage into wastewater collection

Like volume of cursewords
Rising from the stadiums
Of dumbfounded excited nobodies
Who have squandered their personal integrity

To join a mediocre collective 
Who scream their voiceboxes until wheezing
Just shut up and sit down
you have a lot to prove but a big void where the brain is supposed to be


Yes Charles I want to be a writer

 It does come bursting out of me
Like instinct
Like embrace
Like surrender

Dominance
excitement
anticipation
Creativity

It does come out of me
Do I want the fame?
The money?
The lifestyle?

You said I wasn't ready,
You are right.
It does come out of my soul like a rocket
Without it many vices would consume me

Why yes the sun inside me is burning for me to write
So I write, dear God I write
And i will keep doing it until I die
Or until it dies in me



The fruit of my words

 My poetry doesn't move you enough.
I wish it was me that was missing something here.
But it was you...
I took my words and formed a garden path for you to follow.

Down down where all seasons converge, all weather, all twilight.
There I have grown a fruit tree with the most delicious fruit you've ever tasted.
But you don't bite in...
Instead you pretend you know the flavor.

Your imagination doesn't turn.
My words just fall flat like autumn leaves under that same tree!
Or worse the uneaten fruit that spent a month on the tree.
Developing through those sunfilled days, sits rotting.

It doesn't move you.
The metaphor was built like a house whose curvature,
surrounded the eternal fruit tree of my verse.
You grin and say- They're just words!

Just imagine if you could see and taste the fruit.
A pomegranate persimmon looking fruit.
whose perfect sourness livened your senses.
That exposed flavors you never knew existed.

That exposed illusions in your waking life,
that leave you unsustained.



segunda-feira, 23 de março de 2026

Yellow dusty passenger

 The roll of flab comes over the arm rest and enters my private space
It was my turn to keep my prejudices to myself
While he gave me a huge roll of fat all over my arms
The sweaty watch strap the three chins and the beady eyes focusing in

I didn't give him permission to flood over me with that roll of fat
Or encourage the man to eat or avoid treatment
The steamy vapor changes our seat space
He burps casually relieving himself with several heavy breaths after

He laughs at a joke using animal puns on his instagram
The flab flexes, expands and contracts flacid and moist
The first yellow dusted snack makes it's way from stained fingers
Those fine yellow dust particles accumulate

Then the man sneezes and the yellow cloud covers the slim hostess
Her shriek made the man jump and the bag of cheetos spilt all over us


The brave coward

 Steve couldn't wait to celebrate his victory
He broke the jaw of the man who had confronted him in the pub
Sirens had landed and screamed like unfed children
the man on the floor bleeding and cursing

The police burst in, but Steve had left minutes before
He was leaning outside the abandoned fish and chip shop
cradling his knuckles and checking his manhood
But inside the scared boy lingered

The very fear that made him overact
Like a threatening piece of graffiti under the wotn's old entry bridge
That would spark up as if written in gasoline
Surge down his thin forearms

From some neglected room of his heart
That part that needed and taunted others for needing
The joke spins gets digested and doubles back to haunt old Steve
The respect I hold for him was for the pain that he could carry

Still pretending with his jeer
With his tireless lsd trip that protected him
Street lights burning abandoned orphans hang down
Drooping like used condoms

The very fear you invented now reverberating back through the radio speakers
The hell you conjured is in the back seat meddling with your senses
You give the cops the slip but your own demons handcuff you
And I see clearly what these demons are as they feed on your spine


Primal Tropidurus

 The lizard scoots like a rider
Sprints sideways across a wall
To catch the beetles and spiders
It nods and shakes it's head

It's all the fire and fury of a dragon
Sunlight speeding it up in the hush
heating the limbs pushing it forward
flashing legs send it boosting into the shade

It ducks down and staunches up on it's haunches
It's flicks the fork tongue to check the air
Then one eighties on the wall
The reptillian leer appears

The majestic colored marks on it's body
Adjusts to the color of a nearby trunk
In some minutes it will be camouflage
A mouth planning to devour

Blending slowly into surroundings
a silent game
Power in stillness
A violent calculation

The Joker under his tongue

 Lanky Steve was leary in the night 
He was impulse, he was carelessness
A shunner of consequence
Dancing the dance of a senseless existence

Hiding when sober and crashing
Exposing himself when high or drunk
He walked the abandoned railway
stumbling not falling

Tripping into the night
Where insane dogs barked and barked
Their echoes fusing into strange music
He was heedless

almost jogging each footfall a scoff
Building into laugh greeting the dog barks
distilling the darkness for a drop of sinister
That would float his hostile mind

Into the capital city
Emotion slowed things down
vehemence sped them up
his tab under the tongue was a joker 

The things he thought were completely exposed
were secret
Those things he was sure the world couldn't see
Were obvious


A splinter of my hardened self

 I move between precision and wonder
I want clarity but I need mystery

I think like both a human and a system
logic alongside instinct
I value simplicity
yet my mind naturally builds floors and storeys of meaning

I create daily, almost compulsively
 as if writing is how I exist
I am disciplined, but not rigid
I adapt when something feels off

I distrust artificial perfection
I see strength in flaws and edges
I seek purpose beyond routine
something visible, lasting, and real

I prefer clarity and brevity,
 yet my inner world is expansive
I am grounded in reality,
But I reach toward the symbolic and mythic

I carry responsibility quietly
health, work, relationship, creation
I want recognition
but only if it aligns with truth, not illusion.

The past is a dream

 I fought my way back into that dwindling last dream
To feel it's warmth and comfort to bathe in it's meaning
My eyes open and slowly I lose my grip on it
It slowly evapourates like morning dew in the first rays

Like a middle aged person reaching back for the adventure of his twenties
pursuing and simulating the nostalgia of those times
Instead of standing in the present fully and greeting it
There is zero for those that strive backward toward those special days

What is passed is gone we can never be our younger selves again
We can not relive those decades or reach those moments
So let go of it let the morning sun burn off the mist
Settle yourself into the creation of a new time

domingo, 22 de março de 2026

I was once taught

 I was once taught
Now i'm a teacher
I once wrought
Now a literary creature

Building dreams in above the ground my glee
In oceans, where gaze is possession honey
inside the abyss millions of miles of deep
Your terror surreal in sleep then wake and peak!

The strangeness moves over you like weather
I was once taught, now I'm that bright cloud
Excitement demands I show you in further
These depths a trillion stomachs

Digesting a tasty world baby, while it lasts
Oh just a notion of what's behind this eye
Now I'm an imaginer of infatuations of the past
Funky graffiti on the inner walls of my heart

Sometimes I read their cute spraypaint remarks
Those nostalgic crushes bursting forth with sparks
I look down at the still algae filled pond
But it's not stagnant rotten water, make me fond

It's all juice for my thirst pass my pen and straw
I'm diving headfirst longing to get to the bottom
Not afraid to drown, follow me down, you blossom
To learn from it, to burn, finally to fathom!

A vagabond's bedsit

 The ad said room to let
Those ten meter living spaces
In the old building built in the seventies
tiny bedsits under the town's big brothel

The neons would keep me up past the early hours
Reminding me of the lively nature of human need for connection
Maybe even the sound of the loudest of them making its way through walls
But it was cheap a lifeline for a simple writer like me, engulfed by the city

I'd even have a small window to see the remnants of a horizontal winter sun
A bed a desk and old block three channeled t.v a mini fridge teaspoon of hope
Just enough space to keep me from the laughing cord a noose
So I circled the ad and folded the page sparking the half cigarette i'd saved

With all of that business going on above maybe i'd get some inspiration
Here's to the neons as the sour fume embraced my lungs
Ember flared and I packed my stuff 

She will fly again

 The long night over head.
A city full of bridges and highways.
Overpass after overpass.
Nonstop transit.

The lost souls and I looked upward in those last hours of darkness.
It's a monoplane positioning itself to land on the highway.
Complaining in long winded sighs it's motor makes.
Because the traffic below won't make space.

The small structure wobbles and shudders.
Like a shopping trolley down a steep street.
Then rebalances itself as if suddenly a gocart.
It comes down horrorfying motorists.

Avoids the laggards swiveling this way and that.
Falling suddenly forward then jumping violently back.
Until it finds it's cruise speed, the tiny wheels adjust to the roadway.
Slowing and gracefully pulling into a pitstop, intact, she will fly again.

sábado, 21 de março de 2026

Yurodivy

 Unpredictable the highway is his dancefloor
He wanders and dances as if in a fever
He kicks out of his stride with a taunting cabriole
He blows dust from the road up into the ether

Where it vibrates madly and become planets
He moves through the villages detached
No expression on his face, life unplanned
Then suddenly a playful smile

Every secret of the cosmos well known to him
He speaks in cryptic riddles with a cheeky grin
When confronted he becomes provocative and fearless
He lives without possessions, under clothes is hairless

Out here on open roads he screams into the lands chasms
randomly cartwheels, sticks his hand up to tease the wind
He walks harmoniously avoiding danger in his careless wisdom
Watching the miracles and tragedies of our times unfold and kindle

Age and time tied the knot

 Age and time were married
They would wake and eat together
Each day like a child of their own
Each step in unison

Breezing through mornings
giving their faces to dawn's brightness
What was time doing with age
Age showed off time like it was statue

And time pushed age on through the ebbs and flows
Motivating those essential changes
Age greeted time with celebrations
Time reminded age with clocks and phones

When they made love the fresh and the old disappeared
Their climactic gift was the present
Their feelings were moments, exciting seconds
Something was born like a solstice or eclipse

Humans don't feel their movement
Have lost all notion of history
Uninterested in the transitions and progressions
Neither pious nor athiest believe in the consequence of time


sexta-feira, 20 de março de 2026

At the temple for washing souls(a free God)

 The two gargantuan temples awaited.
God was a child kicking a stone in the broad courtyard.
He knew he was God but played his reality as the child all the same.
He kicked the stone, it spun and hit the concrete.
He put his hand up to block the rays of the sun, as if this entity wasn't a family member.

Then he skipped just to enjoy the sensation of it.
I witnessed him do all this, as I entered the small rooms between the temple.
Once inside the elder women greeted and drew my death on the rock wall.
I grinned and gave myself up. I will let go here.
The hard rock wall covered with dried blood flaking and beckoning for me.

The elder women started their song which went from melodic and harmonic.
Into shrill cries, proclaiming and screaming blood curdling refrains.
As I felt my body smashed on the course and rough rock on the wall.
My body would be no more here under their strange wailing.
With little God planning the next millenia with the sun in his eyes.

I gasped my last gasp as teeth tongue and mouth were no more.
Crush me destroy me until I am finished my noble women.
Between good temples release me from existence.
Dance oblivion across me with your steps and words.
But before you do, split through into two.

My original two, the lamb and the wolf.
The giver and the taker.
Let me give my final offering.
Take my final fire from these sacred temples.
Let my name be dead forever...
Thus I witness the stone be kicked for eternity!
For I love a free God.


quinta-feira, 19 de março de 2026

The fleck of you

 one fleck of dust flew up through that sunlight.
a lost desire, a whim we didn't know we had.
A tiny piece of ourselves flying off.
Being thrown upward exposed in the sunlight.

Gone forever on the chaos of the air.
The sunlight glints off it,
radiating the beauty of it.
As soon as you reach for it...

The air between your hand and the fleck,
pushes it away.
Oh these lovely people that I loved,
pushed away.



The kids I cannot save

 Helena looks out of her cot into the slits of sunlight.
Iluminating the updraft of millions of tiny specs of dust.
Like a waterfall falling upward in an empty room.
She was born with a disease, am I not a dispicable human for not saving her?

Lucas is on the floor, he is making noises with his mouth.
Words don't come yet, he was born slow.
He moves the tiny horse a long the tile, no smile, no focus.
He still needs love as she does, what kind of monster am I to not accept them?

God bless these children for I am not noble enough to take them.
And the world has no empathy for them.
I have no soul, I am the same mess of a human being.
In love with acquiring, in love with my routine and fantasies.

Not willing to give anything up.
I am part of the selfishness.
I am the narcissist and the self worshipping illusion obsessed.
I am a silly man with a wounded child in his heart.

quarta-feira, 18 de março de 2026

Purple screen

 She slowly pulled away like a flower you forgot to fertilize
She sunk into bathrooms and well glazed mirrors
Losing herself ever so slowly but eventually forever
Into the creams and recipes the methods and secrets

She went inside the ocean of it all
I couldn't follow her through it
The purple screen waving back at me
giving her last goodbye

the solid screen shut and all I took was memory
Who would i be without her
Just an observer not a liver of experiences
Was she my courage and gift?

Could I not be more unto myself without her
The iron patience of that woman
The grace others seldom notice
her secret smile that takes hours to unglue


The sophistication of the primitive

 At the french villa a wealthy father gave his son a yacht
One he would take to the Mediterranean
I told the son not to sail as he had never done it before
That he should learn first

I walked through the vineyard the random grapevines thick leaves
made me think of hands reaching out toward the constant changing seasons
They reneted out a huge part of their land for outdoor sports
Exclusive people would do their trekking and rock climbing

Up on a pass on the range far above the estate there was a cave
There we were to prepare a barbecue to symbolize the primal
Cousins and restless drunks arrived insisting on how to build kindling
I inched them out with a handy shard and lengthy knife

Then went about conjuring that sweet fire that turns the raw into cooked
I lost myself in the turning of meat in the bragging of colleagues
I lost myself in the madness of overdressed macho obtuseness
Tools and matches, soot and charcoal, we were primitive


On two wheels

 we arrived there just as the motorcycle broke
We had gear that was only sentimental
My heart went to a woman called Maira
She had arrived from the escalators and metro trains

Her mother had a project and everyone else had many needs
We took hollow twigs and attempted to build a nest
Temptations came in and out like a walking tv screen
We fixed her mother's leaky gutter and her smile shined

We put everything back on the motorcyle in perfect order
She went to the mall land to discover her past
I was sent careening into some old french villa
Where the winter wasn't as cold

terça-feira, 17 de março de 2026

Park weeds

 The weeds have grown a foot out of the pavement.
They wave me and wave me out.
They green and they seedy flower stout.
Their roots deep inside pavement cracks.

The road running poser never notices,
Or even looks back.
He doesn't thank God for this little park.
He just keeps running as if we cared.

The brilliant long blades of grass.
reach upward so gracefully.
But just so that my hands can pull.
That I can uproot them and throw them beyond.

So that the curb can be clear.
All the way down clean and ordered.
Oh my smile oh my relief.
Just getting it all smooth.

But I found it on the driveway

 I took the cellphone from off of the driveway,
I am a seven year old lost boy.

I cradled it carefully in my hands,
My new obsession, my new toy.

I hid for hours as mother cooked,
As brother studied his vengeance books.

I gleefully played with the screen,
checking apps feeling like a teen.

I hid it from every oncoming eye,
This would be purely mine.

A strange call came from up the street,
A child was going door to door.
Dread hit my heart and carried me.
It wasn't my phone I couldn't ignore.

I would have to give the thing over


segunda-feira, 16 de março de 2026

Self Old Self Young

Self old= I told myself- There are so many things you need to improve on. It's been so long. where are you feeling most of your pain.
Self young= I'm not in pain.
Old -Then why are my memories so full of pain.
Young- Because you couldn't stand yourself.
Old- Why?
Young- You wanted to be good at everything, I wasn't ready.
Old- But that was you too, wasn't it?
Young- Only the part that eventually became you. The piece that no longer fits.
Old- So what is your current anxiety.
Young- You know what it is don't make me say it.
Old- Oh yeah then. Can I give you the guide then?
Young- You know I'll probably keep doing whatever feels right.
Old- Sure, we still do that sometimes.
Young- Okay say it.
Old- Cut all your peers off. Focus on clean friends, only one or two, tolerate their stupid jokes. Learn from them. Stay at your focus- writing and languages. Reading and maybe law. Stay away from drinking and smoking you will find out the only people who do that type thing arrive way later.
Young- what do you mean arrive?
Old- Get to your position of growth.
Young- Why is that important?
Old- Because you can stop trying and start doing. It works out real well. things become natural. Those jarring anxieties dissolve almost completely.
Young- Impossible!
Old- Certainly not impossible, as soon as you stop playing their game and start playing your own one, you will build mastery and you will know who you are.


All round suspicion

 If I empty the contents of my mind upon the page,
you read.
You might just blush and turn away from me.
I may not find you ever again, as you may avoid me, like you do the rain.

Those turns of the head and eyes that suspect.
These things smooth out with everyday respect.

I don't want to let the fit of your disguise interrupt what is happening.
The day you dream bubbled in fear- don't reach out and tap me.

Let me be appropriate and tell you what is true.
Life is full of choices and if the current ones fell through.
Then you gotta reconfigure and let in the new.

Who will love you thoroughly later.
So in need of a stimulator.

Jefferson Nicholas

  A young 26 year old politician making waves in the conservative party. In Brasilia the political center of Brazil. He had used every resource possible to get himself where he was. For the most part he was reasonably honest. Just a little vindictive.

2014 Something forms.
Chapter 1 


Jefferson drank down his last mouthful.
"See you guys in the Plenary tomorrow." Jeff said.
His colleagues waved to him. Antonio followed him out.
Jeff waved Antonio over. "Come ride with me. We have many things to talk about."
They began to talk about the increased pressure to tow the party line.
Signs of corruption were starting to become more evident. The shapes of schemes.

They drove down an avenue parallel to the city's lake. 
Antonio in his late thirties, his face showing signs of aging already.
"We can't stay out of their schemes, we just need to learn how to play their game better than them."
"Antonio, you don't get it. If it's their game it can never be your game." Grinning his young face full of cocky self satisfaction.
"That's all good and proper, but aren't you afraid they'll get to you. And if they do, they'll probably go after more than just your cooperation."

There was a long silence, they drove back toward the city.
"Where should my driver leave you Antonio?"
"Leave me near Planaltina. I have a friend I need to talk to there."
"A little rough isn't it..."

Before Antonio answered the question bullets came into the windshield. The bullet proofing stopped them from coming through.
The car screamed to a stop. The driver pulled a pistol.
"You guys stay here in the car, I'll go see who shot at us."
"Bad idea Edilson. Just get us out of here!" Jefferson screamed.
"I can't drive the windscreen is too cracked. I can't see a thing." Edilson the driver said.
Edilson opened the driver door, hands came out of nowhere pulling him away.
A man pointed his assault rifle inside the cabin of the car at Antonio and Jefferson.
"You are going to hand over your phones and credit cards boys, or you'll die here in the back of this car." 
Jeff and Antonio handed all, of their cards over.
The man called over his friend who had a mobile card reader. They started swiping the cards and stealing the funds.
A few minutes later they threw a trembling bloody Edilson back into the vehicle.
"I told you stay in the fucking car Edilson. Now look at you?"
Antonio put his hand Jeff's shoulder in a gesture of calm.
"I'm sorry" jefferson said. "Take us home."


Sushi on the office desk

 Sushi clothes will I undress
Errands filling the day dark green
Barrel fulls of rollable protein
Good nutrition pouring onto the table

Wrapped than squeezed into rolls like cables
With the contents of of the fields and the sea
Snacking on these stacks of snacks frequently
Silvery dark paper mande from flattened algae

Sushi flows out like a creek
Sushi opens mouths that speak
What sushi says to me is
Life is short wrap it up delicately

cut your slice of sovereignty

domingo, 15 de março de 2026

Where's my fuel

 It's all flat, the page is blank
There's fire where there should just be fuel
I need it to be the stockpiled fuel
Ready to put my spark into the accelerant

Just sweet liquid creativity 
And I'm a guzzler
I'm a streaking havoc 
Blazing tongues rising

the fire's dying down
I need it to be stoked
that transition for embers
Before the diappear into cinder

Yes unending fuel and heat
Burn working it's way through
Until the flickering points of fire
Form letters into words


The restless moving morning

 The sun came through the words good morning
breakfast wafted through the air into nose
Steam off coffee freshly buttered toast
morning sunlight ambling to six A.M

The edge of the day wants sweetly
to flow weather and time, to be complete
wanting to accompany you wherever you go
put it on like bedsheets, put it on like clothes

The dying moon studies me
It's funeral evapourates clouds 
My path is clear so is my pace
quietness folded into space

Houses trees and entire cities pass by
Your eyes look them over still dry
Then rain comes, eyes cry
Midday sun comes, morning dies

Uninvited versus the ostrasized.

 Great I've arrived at four square hotel with my fellow peers.
Friends from popschool, posing and putting on laughs and sneers.
They tell me the writer here, to get with the program.
They didn't have vacancies, I took what I could manage.
Down the rocks a little is the rest of the village. 
A tourist stop with bars and even a few party venues.

The crowd line up to get into buses so young and new.
The charismatic friends single me out as an introvert inside.
They tell me directly to my face- you are not invited.
-You can stay here, play with yourself. They derided
-You are a buzz killer, there's just no fun with you.

I turn to go, two guests turn to me and stare.
As if they would actually prefer me there.
They look toward me through the back window of the bus.
I look back at them. The engine starts without fuss.
The window rolls down on the nearby lamborghini.
-Stay out of our way freak! he said meanly.

I looked up to the amassing cloud.
Then back at that back window gossip seeping.
Now there were three or four people.
Men and women waving to me in such wist.
One made a hearthshape another  blew a kiss.

Big wheels clicked then rolled, charismatic heads swelling.
Heading to pleasure seekers village when they'd return no telling.
I wasn't invited, so i went back to the dark rooms of the mountain hotel.
There I wrote and wrote until my skin became paper.
My blood became ink then swirling vapor.
Soul stretched into a long etched scroll.

I filled up the corridors and every room of that hotel.
My words fell down in the hill onto the roads.
Like fat rain or small plump bouncing toads.
Some of them entered the buses open windows.
Then I was there among them.

Subject to their attempts at icebreakers
and their attempts to sneak drinks.
volume fall and volume rose.
My words gathered into form.
A figure of prose.

One of the charismatics poked his head around and got up.
-How did he get on the bus? He demanded exactly.
The rest stayed quiet just looking at the charismatic.
The charismatic screamed louder- Get him off the bus!
Eyes narrowed onto the charismatic with distrust.
Someone whispered. -Yuck.

The charismatic reeled in horror.
Sporadically giggles peeled out of the bus corridor.
The charismatic flustered ruddy beat red in the face.
The adams apple rose and fell in complete disgrace.
He attempted Nonchalance but a hidden tick had surfaced.

I was writing of all this from that dark little hotel room.
Up in that mountain I wrote into the late afternoon.
The fire was lit and the words just flowed like rising sparks.
Shaping their situations with literary archane art.
I could see the bus stopping and the charismatic get out.
The rowdy party goers abusive gestures and shouts.

You will have to face everything eventually,
came a voice to his ear.
From your smallest offence to your greatest fear.





sábado, 14 de março de 2026

Beyond and sublime

 In space beyond surreal dream.
Stirs a realm where souls are redeemed.
Lifetimes from here.
On my world come to bear.
 
The father and son observe my present day.
From open eyes to the will to pray.
Glee in their expressions they exist yet sublime.
They´ve reunited to fuse the threads of time.

The fathers have opened doors.
Sent good will and force.
Their harmony lives on resonates.
A future speaks back to the present day.

The blessings are now symbols that move and blend.
Rays down from narrow holes in clouds that extend.
I sign glory to come with my imagination´s pen.
Pouring that ink straight from my heart.

Doors and eyelids

 The door appears
I vanish
It opens
I am there

Just ether
Simply air
No walls or rooves
Just a door you stare

Turn the handle
Lock impaired
Shut it now
Unaware

Then you blink
You form a tear
Inside your eye
I am there


sexta-feira, 13 de março de 2026

Life backwards toward writer's paradise

 Oh sanity of the mundane, a helping of it
The distortion of time it's delicate serviette
Rise old engine of mistakes generate running legs to correct
rise and move again to the forefront of life's comedy

The shapes of Muckle Roe

 The shape of an animal up on the cliffs
Moving to and fro in mist that won't lift
Staring down from where it strut
On Muckle Roe where stone juts

The wind and drizzle unending, never blue
Random fat raindrops cutting through
On the patches of lichen it all landed
underneath the red sombre granite

Atop the sea edge cliff the Muckle Roe creature
Caught like a snapshot in random lightning flash
It's shape declares itself to eyes
fright and legends spread

None have the courage to climb for fear
For it's size and appearance
The rumours of what it is
Until this day on the reddish cliffs


Up a mountain and back

 The campervan catapulted
All of grandfather's tools spilled out
everything fell toward the roof
But before it couls touch fell back down

He wasn't afraid, he was anticipating more
Red faced, he was once the craftsman
A jeweller focused on the sparkle
Everything fell almost exactly back into place

The campervan followed the winding drive round and around
Until we found ourselves almost over a cliff
So into reverse following our tracks exactly
Until we were back to the known

There we found kindnesses and familiarity 
Stubbornesses and tranquil homelife

quinta-feira, 12 de março de 2026

The Focus obstructed

Interrupt me
Interest deep
steel is cold
runs along the routine

The weight of life is delicious
The pull and the push
The long silences the breathing
Then the crash

Interrupt me 
As I count the days upon the hill
The one I'll occupy herein
worshipping the air so still

The weight of the land has a hold
Shedding it's debris
Leaving me with it's gold
come disrupt me

Interrupt me I'm in the middle of so much
I barely hear the whisper
That begs kiss, begs touch
push me off my crutch

The weight of the glare
pushing past the side glance
Into that dirty stare
interject shamelessly


Something does

 something moves freely
a muscle extending
A thought across the existence of the mind flexing it's power through out me

Something grows inside
A heat pretending
A will to something beyond the plate of food the world is offering

Something dissolves reality
A spell binding
A sense of direction a falling star in slow motion I'm following

Something turns and emerges
A new skin over me
A body which only listens to boldness and plans for overthrowing


Apoetseye- what is it?

 













Maelstrom of me

 In the middle of me a vortex hides.
one you can't see, veiled and wild
Only coming out in flickers through the eyes
What magnet is this that on the tornado rides

Rolling, jarring and rocking around the heart
I split apart searching the seen and unseen
Then reintegrate looking back inside
Every aspect of me together again

Something whirls and grinds inside me
words and whispers spin and spin
These messages come flooding out
Into the daylight of the page

Served like a meal
tasted and digested
thus fed back into the vortex
Of the unquenchable twisting


quarta-feira, 11 de março de 2026

Hempsall- At the broken oar(Ghostlights of the fens) 1700

 
Big bog there was an old tavern near the reed patches
Joseph Hempsall spent his day cutting reed for thatch.
Checking the odd trap with his fellows over the Wicken Fen
Life was simple bright and cheery the most part to spend

He had a pretty busy morning cutting the thatch reed
Checking a few eel traps among the thick water weeds
By two he'd labored  much exhausted and sloven
So made the hour walk to the Broken Oar tavern

A bailiff, a shearer and a traveler drank cheap brandy
Talked of Lord Wentworth whom they slandered gladly
These men cursing and drinking from midday
Hempsall drank too, echoing their naysaying

Before long twilight came and darkness cast a spell
Hempsall chugged, grabbed his gear, then he said farewell
He stumbled across the narrow path within Big Bog
Tavern occupants called him back while croaking frogs

Their voices droned finally Joseph heard none
But he wasn't alone he was talking to someone
He continued his way blind across marshland half drunk still smiling
He began to shout his voice louder and louder... Then silence

The very next evening Hempsall turned up in the Broken Oar tavern
Nightfall and three distinct knocks at the door t'was his return
The bailiff opened the door to a pale wet Hempsall
Who cried ghostly mud tears and uttered appalled

"Seek my body in the bog among the cursed fens plants" 
then the apparition fell like water on the entrance
It all disappeared in an instant out of sight
Only to repeat exactly the next night




Pushing the last cart

 My Father complained as he materialized on the sidewalk. "Why have you woken me Simon. I was dead, I was in the calm of nothing." 
I just looked at him thankful that I was allowed to see his face one more time.
"What are we doing here then, atleast answer me that." His face questioning and uncertain.

"I am supposed to take you to the market where you can buy some of the things you yet seek."
I looked at his face and realized, the half smile that came across it wasn't authentic happiness. Just programmed fed back from the memories of the forelife.

So we walked into the warehouse of stalls and ate food off plastic trays and checked prices together. "So when did you become a necromancer" My Father asked casually.
"I didn't conjure you here, old man." I responded. Vendors around us made their offers, jokes and impatient sighs as we left their stalls behind.

My honest brother came up to us and warned us. The market would close and Father would have to get back to his hotel. Before I could react he took his hand. I turned back to the curb, our cart was slowly rolling onto the road, I ran and grabbed it as I saw my Brother and my Father leave.
I rolled the cart full of things I had no idea why we had accumulated. 

I pushed it along a dirt stained concrete sidewalk, then over wooden boards, the damp dim undercroft of a long city bridge. The sidewalk turned into damp cardboard and the wheels would no longer move.
I couldn't push it any further.


terça-feira, 10 de março de 2026

Tiddy Mun of the Fen brooks(Ghostlights of the fens 1700s)

 Tiddy mun without a name
separate the water from the rain
Separate the stone from the mud
please let us know when it'll flood

Come ye out of those little pools
Bless our crops and wayward mules
Then pop back into the ponds of the bog
Where you nibble on reed and rotten log

Oh Tiddy Mun be the cure for what ails us
Let your ancient presence never fail us
You remind us one day we'll age and dampen
Thwart the mean ghost man with the lantern

Make our time longer indeed not shorter
So we can make amends for stealing your water
Guard our crop ol' Tiddy mun of the Fen
spin the deluge off, our farm steady friend



A symmetry off limits

 How you turn around to me
you boldly face me
words don't come to either of us
I wish I knew what you sought in me

Lost want curved and curling
from Bom dia lips
Your grace doesn't go overlooked
How you keep yourself precious

Then what need is there for words
When admiration is our reality
When you are gone relief drips
like sweat on the machine

A polished smile
On good morning lips
Your routine exposes your litheness
Your gentle balance unforgettable

There is no goodbye
Only reminders of your harmony
Of the eveness we may feel
our proximity forbidden


segunda-feira, 9 de março de 2026

Dolls and empty roads

 My head is heavy so i lob it forward to drag the rest of my body.

The gutters of both sides of the road are full of dolls that look like me.

Is this my voodoo freeway, divine limbo in judgement imposed on me.

I continue forward no visible cars or people just the sounds of rattling dolls
and my own quiet footsteps.

The crossroads are empty up head as i come upon them I have no notion where to go.

I keep walking legs humming, brain an audience of voices on a lonely desolate road
of abandoned dolls.


Eihwaz Kenaz Fehu

 The rune for digging below.
Endurance, transformation, connection
To find the hidden water.
The creativity to use this water.

The Rune of illumination, knowledge, skill
Craftmanship and clarity.
To bring what has never existed into the light.
As if it was there from the start.

Abundance, manifestation and vital energy.
Effort bears rewards in many forms.
Each powerful and sustaining.


The ten heads of my past life

Ten heads, each holding a different life,
One of my faces on each 
Each with a small light inside it
Burning from eyes and mouth

 A candelabrum of memory
That transforms into the modern version of me
 A hydra of time
That finds a moment of presence inside me

 where every head carries its own era
It's own haunting surreal landscape and voice
One might know the Fen mud
another a dockside in Limehouse

A field growing somewhere in imagination
Lights are experiences burning inside it

domingo, 8 de março de 2026

Fenhound at Denver sluice(Ghostlight on the fens series) 1713

 A low thick rock wall followed the waterway flush
Smooth flat flowing water eventually out to the wash
Other side of the stone wall a trail between villages narrow but good
made up of stones and pebbles lined with guelder rose and dogwood

The tide could be felt there at the sluice the coast still thirty miles 
So villages near king's lynn got brackish water and thirsty smiles
That week before nightfall there was long calm warm afternoons
couples sat on the wall to enjoy last light before the pale moon

Two of these couples witnessed a huge dog hours before the storm
Matted thick furr, glowing eyes and ears that curled like horns
The experience left the couples terrorfied and sleepless that night
Causing hysteria in humble residents local now a source of fright

Parallel to the unease storms began coming up from the south
The fenhound sighting a bad omen of tragedy or ill health
The great ouse was absorbing storm rains sending floodwater forth 
Seven days from sighting sluice gates broke with incredible force

Lowland homesteads and habitations were completely flattened
Omen of the fenhound punishing both hedgedweller and aristocrat




“We were checking the sluice gates when a shadow moved across the embankment. It was vast, black, and low, with eyes like faint coals glimmering through the fog. It walked as if it had weight, but no sound came from its paws. The water hissed and rippled, though the wind was still. Some say it was the spirit of the fen itself, some say a dog of the damned.”

Vermuyden's fear of water

Cornelius visualized the lines he would cut across the Fens swamp
Like roads inside his mind, same ditches he cut in land so damp
Now he was cutting like a man obsessed into Welny deep and long
Toward the lower great Ouse where the silver eel belongs

Slowly the old Fens lands were being drained 
The peat was the fuel the canal a sacred vein
These ideas through his head minutes before sleep
As he slept the humid air rose from bog deep

Night tangled with thin lines of sweat making him shiver
Carving across his face like his new trench rivers
dampening his pillow soaking his dream
Like the Old bedford steam

Imagining himself descending from the overrig
Found himself in a golden afternoon on the dig
something clamped down on him and wrangled
he looked down a giant eel bit into his ankle

He woke, morning already through the tent
Supervised the dig with the drudges he sent
He stayed far from the water watching, feeling fearful
A whirl of a ripple on the surface he became careful

A long black shape reeled up in the water, bit a worker's face off
Vermuyden screamed the line of labourers jumped out of the trough
He ordered the grunts to reassemble his tent on higher ground
Cornelius never lost his fear of water, never again slept sound

A mouth full in the dark

 The large form looms in the darkness of another dimension
In the dark world's center where the ground is like mirror
It's a small pink creature serpentine and messy
it flips and grows distorts and comes back to it's form

It curves itself around to form words
No voice box to create the sound from

It flattens itself out to taste food
No teeth to break down the matter

What it really wants is another tongue to wrap itself around
No lips to join opposing ones fusing the desire to meet

But for now it remains a tongue
Growing disporportionately in the darkness

The previous owner

 His tattoo said highway 44 bar on his left arm
A drink in his front words full of charm
on the other arm a local girl mute and calm
He spoke louder than the other patrons
Even the charismatic fat ones
Who were much drunker
His words were loud lousy junk

Exaggerating his victories
Spread lies and attempted trickery
The man swayed then delivered his last boast
Bowed like a king lifted glass in his last toast
On his way out he said he had sold the bar
To road trip in his favorite muscle car
Then made his exit like a super star

He left the pub and whispers became queries
Patron's asked restlessly curiosity flaring
Was he the owner drunk and endearing?
Server laughed under his breath swearing.
He's not the owner, he's just drunk terry!
-What about the tat and tales we've been hearing?
It's only ostentatious ink on a dishonest drinker

sábado, 7 de março de 2026

Silence in the Fens(Series-Ghostlights in the Fens, Cambridgeshire)

 He'd left Ely in the early afternoon that day.
But pale became dirty like the Fen water may.
Clouds bustled as he trudged darker in their greys.
A bothersome drizzle covered land
and to his disdain
Footsteps went deeper as new mud gave way.

He dreamed of warming himself at Wicken.
But his trek back unforeseeably thickened.
Drizzle became rain but thanks to the light of the day.
Bill cooper sought shelter and found his way
into a healthy stand of Alder.
Day's rays remained, except two degrees colder.

He strolled out as rain eased overcast broke sent tither
Just a touch of mist the waning pre-dusk cloud slither
Air unsettling stillness, the roofless violet twilight
Bush racket and rustle reminded him of falling night
Sure he'd made it all the way
Yet his destination nowhere in sight 

Then as if a savior was sent from the corner of his eye
Came the glow of lantern neither too low or too high
Followed as night folded into tenebrous black
Forgetting how he insisted, now veering off track
Boots filled with water, nose with decay
He realized with ugly gloom and dismay, no way back

Lantern went out
The imagination inflammed
No footrpints or body, just silence remained




sexta-feira, 6 de março de 2026

My grandfather's prayer booth

 It's a prayer booth that almost looks like a urinal
The voice of the corridor echoed to me
Inside the mansion handed down to me
1920s New Zealand accent
Slowly losing it's Britishness
Slowly gaining it's polymathic twang
It's the kiwi tinker gourmand

They didn't order it like a pizza
They slowly became it like elk to antlers
The spirit came last and was replaced
With hundreds of theories and denials
Here in the prayer booth there are items
From my grandfather's spell in world war 2
An old radio, a map and a magnifying glass

Also a pack of camels and ace glass ashtray
I knew he had to be smoking in the afterlife
Tending his mansion and his garden
feigning organization and feigning humble
while the outside world grew amongst weeds
Not weeds old Eric would pick out
But ones he told in long drawn out jokes

Punchlines opening as seedheads and his laugh
echoing through the mansion
Even though he was still outside 
What if a soul was nought else but a gram of certainty
Of those few things that made up a human being
The prayer booth in his mansion always empty
But God himself allows Eric to be present

Even if just in the pre-dawn mind
He speaks to me of great places maybe he'll tag along
I know I must have been an irritation to him years back
Maybe he can finally be that for me
I can see his pout and gestures at the cafetaria table
His red skin exactly signature the ember in his cigarette
I still don't really know how he lost his leg

Someone said it was a train 


Power sigil

I rise like a terror storm, I stand, stand
I will arm myself, I am intact at my central knowing eye
The roots of me pierce the marrow further into the ground
My ascent tears through weakness smashing trouble
My power is raw, crude but aligned, and inevitable.

Prosperity is blood-and-omened fate born above flash floods
Side desires crushed under focused pace I flow with the deluge!
I will not long, I will not falter, I will form the threads of the sun itself
I will forge a deliberate, relentless fire in my heart therefrom

Miracles pour out of the furnace of my heart,
Draw fire, ardent sinew of conviction,
Bend reality with friction and absolute fury,
Enter deadly flows of a new, unshakable ideal.

Fortitude balancing every direction of my imminent expansion
Clarity hammers doubt into shards, I see! for God do I see!
Folds of metal in my resolve, destroy obstacles, and walk forward,
The steady calm is steel, this anchor as me is unbreakable

I want everything,
I take what must be taken,
Lands go untended!
There will be tax 


Power sigil rise

 I will rise in strength
I will stand in my central mind
The roots of me deeper
My ascent is creative power aligned

My prosperity is omened fate
Side desires and focused pace
I will not long and I will not haste
I'll form the deliberate pace

Dig down deep in this busy heart
To draw fire and ardent conviction
Until I have reality bending friction
I need to enter the flow of a new ideal

Fortitude courage across years
Clarity as a hammer over doubt
Resolve that I hold build and walk forth
The steady calm and steel anchor

I want everything
There will be tax





Glaze, glance and batter

 sugar my life divine
bring in the fragrance
the shine I pine for ...
My excitement
when Im your slice

Embrace my form simple nice
Taste the spice of my complex side
mesmerized see me rise
Divert your glance slightly humble
so you don't see my batter crumble

I accept you'll cut your ample stake
A hail of icing is such sweet fate
Heat and taste is oven baked
Don't leave me here on the plate
fresh and hot I'm your cake

Lack is infact clumsy

 We had crashed the comby van into the small creek
One of thiose creeks that used to be a river
Now it was just a trickle
stones followed the thin strip of water
Big banks of clay on either side
As if expecting some random flash flood to erupt
Clumsy handed over the empty food container

I filled it up with what I had int he front seat
It wasn't good enough for him so he threw it out
The little food we had left now thrown by clumsy
Who had mistakened himself for authority
But like quirky was just a slave of daily failure
Looking for straight lines on a round earth
So we all went hungry and resentful

Didn't take me long until I abandoned them there
And made myself tot he green rolling banks
Smiling I was closer to the grand river itself
No one saw my journey but it was rough and lonely
Now I was building a house on the hill above the river
Where there was abundant food and river water
Compared to the trickle I crashed into years ago


 

quinta-feira, 5 de março de 2026

Summer of bodies 1888(East end stretch Limehouse/Shadows on the Thames)

 First one landed, east end stretch, cold summer day
Unrecognizable face, washed up swollen and gray
On the littered and pebbled vacant slipway
 the smell of algae and sour decay

Another washes up hours later
A labourer lost footing body floating on Thames shoulder
The tower bridge in construction, a riveter, a scaffolder
Or maybe even a drunken steeplejack

Yet they appeared, slipways, embankments and dikes 
Mutilated by hulking aggressive Thames river Pike
If the rats arrived before constable weary-
plainly the body would prove less heavy

One arrived and lay purple and pink on a mudbank
A solitary crow axed with it's beak, thud thud thud
Raised it's head to check for other crows and gulls...
Back to flesh, jackhammering through a lifeless skull

A slight tremble in the crow's neck became evident-
as mitten crabs encroached to hide under the bloat lifting
The stench of it all hit the constable in the rickety skiff
He cursed, and the jet black crow flew off replaced by a gull

Gull grey and white, beady and bold pecked once to stir it
Raised its beak full of carrion to approve the trapped spirit
that a nearby resident angel might swoop down and liberate it
Inquest officer marvelled at steam emitting from the body

The stubborn gull refused to flee...
Toward a shipmast looked, where an angel sat nodding








Never doomed by fate

 Emotions are the cause of the world
I went through the door almost fell
with permission without flaunting
I got everything I was wanting

I was after flavor and connection
I wanted to feel all I had selected
passion and hunger that never abates
That I had carried around for decades

I aimed and entered unafraid
Went through air claps and sings
I become what I was practicing
The ultimate phenomena of existence

I recognized myself in the persistance
Thus further in delved to no end
Who I became when out I was sent
Well I became a creator legend

A summer of two harvests(The homestead part 3)

 Back at the homestead his wives were working the vegetable garden
cooking in the kitchen and commenting about the daily tasks
everything was being talked about at the same time
Gareth was a quiet man he had no time for chit chat

However he still felt obligated to regard and ask after each one
perhaps it was the downside to such an incredible summer
Early abundant harvests with just enough time to replant
In scotland such a thing was unknown

maybe this was what attracted the bandits brazen
Knowing the local markets biggest provider was Gareth's homestead
They must have cunniongly followed him back after market end
Then set their trap the very next day

Not knowing Gareth would not be bullied or manipulated
No Gareth would put the two men in early graves
Hiding it all from the prying eyes of his six wives
Only his servant would know


The man who was rented by God(homestead 2)

 Gareth raised his rifle, the local riff raff were not leaving
He pulled the trigger one of the threatening men fell
The bullet tearing the arm from the shoulder brilliantly
The surviving bandit pleaded- it's just we have no money!

The bandits had planned to kill Gareth and his family
So he chopped him through with the axe ignoring the scream
He started digging the hole where they would be laid
One of his servants came upon the scene pale and affected

Gareth places the spade in his hands and went to procure dirt
That late morning had been confusing, killing was traumatic
The pines and blue sky seemed to collide in the momentary heat
That micro climate in his valley where temperatures could rise

The stark scent of pine gum and gun powder under summer sun
concocted a holy scene
Not the righteousness of one man who had strong faith
Vengence is a kind of sin it is suppposed

But as if destiny had arrived for the two bandits
And God simply rented Gareth for the day
To put the two down forever
In that peaceful valley 

Homestead the dog(homestead part 1)

 I find the castle and in turn the smaller homestead we occupy
The castle is seven storeys high, ot its first floor an opened plan cafe
Breakfast for the many guests who are accomodated there
On the elbow of the river and the ancient road

My homestead is called The dog
Bandits have died there
scratching out a living
From the climbers

Underestimating their resolve
The homestead represents sacred ground
Where families might tame the land
dig and build where noone else dared

Then bury the bandits who swoop in
Fertilize the gardens with their corpses
Allow their lives to have meaning
As they rot under the roots of our organic produce

quarta-feira, 4 de março de 2026

Elias' one arm and mannequin

 His arm slowly travels around her back
The only one he's got today to hold her
Fingers find their familiar spot under the shoulder
His hug brings her in close to simulate the feeling

His other arm gone from a vehicle accident years ago
She is just a mannequin yet some form of love flows
Because in his mind it's her in the room
Sprayed her with that last flask of perfume

He kisses her gently avoiding her eyes
The memories and figure seem to suffice
Before he tucks himself in
Before he leaves in morning's din

That's as close as he will get
Smiling on the steering wheel cigarette
No need to let feelings of her absence start
Elias knew in his head but didn't tell his heart

So he'd be back to that sweet mannequin
Like an abandoned toddler and his doll
His one armed hugs, his tears would roll
And her wet shoulder


You conform, I wait for the storm

 Waiting for the storm
The repetition of changeless days are a betrayal
The sacred rage at not having that variety
We have longed for chaos, this static state of things is no Utopia

Denying a life of routine
You have misunderstood the true meaning of scarcity
Your impulses give you away soft delectable neediness is exposed
In a world like this there is no poverty but the poverty you partake

Out of disorder they have enforced carnivals and distractions for the masses
Interruptions between your weekly grinstamp shopping spree
I'm waiting for the storm it's divine shapes and greys speak to me
They teach me of freedom of expression

That fear guided you down a path that led to your bondage
Even though it was advertising cheap freedom
What could it mean to paint your own world with your own colors
Instead of reflecting the palette from a panel of hacks with the right credentials

Now your colors and language form the mild tones of prison walls
Your mindless zero sum games, your clutched identity
Somewhere between baggage fueled resonance and attraction from imprinting
Lose yourself in the dreary breeze of daily life or find yourself in your sense of terror

Pumping blood and iron

 I was still waking up
Adjusting to the glare
violent against my eyes
aggressive noisy

I threw myself into the day
Sky made way
pavement clear
Pushing weight

stretching and breathing
Muscles unready
worshipping the heart in me
To beat and pump blood

So that I can lift the next plate
In that unfair fat stack of iron
breath gets pushed out on the lift
Sucked in on the decline

Broken by failure
Nothing stops me
I go further down the kilos
Until I get under

I lift it all up
Control my body
Grin at fate
But still salute it

Black lighter(Limehouse reach- Shadows on the Thames. November 1864)

BLACK LIGHTER(limehouse reach-1864)

He'd heard frightening stories of the blighted boat
That black lighter off Limehouse dock would float
Griggs didn't care or give much credence
tales of such were for naive believers
 
Griggs looked across the water that dawn
fog left a two meter space enough for a gull
A chill hugged Griggs' bare hands worn
Then there it was the tar blackened hull

No foglight on it's bow, silence almost grim
No lighterman or quant just a hull dark and dim
As the cargo barge came jetting toward him
Thomas Griggs pulled the rope, bell dinged

It sped, almost hit the pier head, then briskly...
it lagged and stopped unpredictably quickly
Thomas looked on disbelieving
As the long Black barge made a turn

Inches from where pier lamps burned
Continuing on into the fog of the morning
That would soon dissolve over the moorings
What wouldn't dissolve was the confusion

... Was it really the cursed black lighter...
Or just an illusion?