disintegrate quickly

there's a word for the surge that you give me when i'm looking for pleasures divine, meanwhile december whispers of treachery.  inca...

there are regrets gigantic rolling hills envelope many graves for my king, the eternal idiot. i don the armour of the almostbrave, send my o...

a tribute to reality television.  is it though, is it the word?

facing a jury of previous lovers i hope they r emember me fondly. some made me bold, a few made me scared, some were only around for a night...

when love is rubbed away there is a cast of shadows to greet you. they inhabit the steam, singing songs of longing and insomnia. what chains...

swallowing  the bitter with the sweet i carry matches for starting fires and magic tricks. a stronger fate awaits the penitent,  but to fall...

vicious victorious vandals      vacate various viaducts. vixens varigate vistas, variously viscounts vigorously vault visible valuables. via...

friday isn't always my favourite,  grey days come sometimes on a friday, gloom sets scenes from my dreams to play out in real time,  a g...

silence sounds a lot like screaming  and by that i mean your absence makes a void so large i have lost days in it and by that i mean i have ...

ready to spread my wings i am at the mercy  of the cat. will he take  the higher ground, content with unhunted sustenance? or will my twitch...

(after dance little baby, traditional nursery rhyme) sing little baby, sing down low sing black sabbath, mother won't know. yell & s...

art reflects but only if you let it.  sometimes arid, like the badlands  sometimes lush, like babylon.  try to stare unblinking. tell your a...

i can't stay around until you turn blank eye cold, i just don't have  that kind of  winter covering. so i will leave now, whispering...

like an heirloom found in the darkest corner like a penny dropped and a dollar found like the rain late for the party like an artwork restor...

iridescent in my eyes can't resist you, ever everytime you call my name candour leaves the room. right on up to pussie's bow excelle...

autumn falls at april's hurdle as summer refuses to let go. we have missed november's thunderstorms, leaving us short on electricity...

we are not made of stone,  because every bone is encircled in the stars of the ages. seek relaxation as a way of maintaining innocence, seek...

don't put on a talisman  then wonder when the magic happens. it doesn't matter how many secret altars you worship at you'll neve...

inspired by history, beatings will be administered daily to activate lifeforce. we play wartime orgies to pretend that we're not living ...

i send my orisons to the ghosts, those of us now free of our bones and our muddy feet. i pray they are opaque enough  to hold my pleas in th...

the craven angels  send their ferrets of reconnaissance  north to sentinel for content. satellites are for  the spying  of  citizens, their ...

i roll my eyes to raise my suspicions. to you trust is a tourist who has worn out all welcome. to me trust is the moon who is sometimes hidd...

dance like you're an animated peanuts character  cry like you're on a downtown train laugh like you've been  released from priso...

in depth, i am  a shallow puddle in depth, i am  a lamb in depth, i am  a balloon exploding  in depth, i am  the slam. in depth, i am  a dro...

no memory serves the exact truth, however dreams fill in the blanks.

experiment where the danger is inherent; run without shoes, shout with no chorus, balance               anywhere. the years find more danger...

in a suburban vista there are things only seen with your eyes shut. i've looked once before, standing on the shoulders of ghosts now fre...

it may be the sun who shows us the way, but when the darkness comes the truth seekers will see. inside the oracle (question everything) ther...

abbreviated senses fall over themselves to reach tear ducts inhale/exhale, stomp as a way of release. you are here. side roadworks  cause no...

i begin with the best intentions, but the piece of my brain that imagines success has mastered the art  of misrepresentation.  the frogs cre...

  he doesn't burn slowly,  usefully,  like a candle, he burns dangerously like a cigarette  about to be dropped  on crusty bedsheets, he...

apollo walked by moonlight contemplating entropy. although a king of increasing power the snowball effect of the melting ice, the fires that...

it’s gentle at first, but already it’s haunted. ghosts float in a medieval parade and i long to join their dance but it is too soon, they sa...

developing a habit as easy as falling down. you flirt with  danger and chemistry to make a heady cocktail, staggering from drink to drink to...

we touch lips and you are ready my ego slips but yours is steady. fingers transferring your scent to my skin muscles clenching deep and with...

insomnia carries its weight through  my days dragging my feet  slowing my heart heavy on my eyes  insomnia carries.  grief weighs its way th...

the grimest of reapers doesn't want you dead, for him the satisfaction  lies in your suffering.  a cast of shadows greets you  as you ru...

sitting in the shadow of the rockies it's a long way there.  fog covered mountain, secrets i'd like to leave behind  here in the sha...

it's deliciously messy  when cuts cause blood but not always. i'll ask you to send envoys  from another  threshold, because  however...

write an anthem write a prayer write for the man who is not there.  write real fast but reluctantly  embrace the rhythm  that you feel don...

i choose coffee over love. why not? my heart already  ripped dripping from my chest that night, that night of  a thousand knives. i choose c...

i wake early to watch the clouds as if they were  television. joined by birds incredulous  we sing & we sing in a voice not quite melanc...

it only took a look to turn me into a somebody  done somebody  wrong song, leaving me bleeding roadside in a sentimental  way. we sit throug...

i didn't see it coming when he took my hand on the corner of underdog & vine, heartskip romeo to sweep me off the street. so i didn...

i'm not in the habit of misguided  infatuation, so what i like most is your haunting  storm damage and the easy way  you cover it over  ...

"i'll be there soon" he said a long time ago. i stayed long enough  for a spider to spin a web on me so that she could whisper...

 i'm not in the business  of giving things away  but this frown is free, i made it myself  from found objects so you see it has your nam...

if ever i dreamed of a bleak city this is it. nameless buildings and strip malls with too many signs. the trees are closing shop fo...

they have closed the coffee shop whe you committed suicide, drinking cup after cup after cup of coffee too strong for your heart to hand...

we stay until our shadows grow so long they are almost out of reach. you linger, touch my hand and say "there is just one thi...

i take my safety for granted, like i'm a man or something tall. i rationalise it as calculated risk, but really i'm just play...

looking to the hills we discuss the value of nature, then decide to go there. breathing deeply, hoping this moment is strong enough ...

dark alley daytime where deep humans take refuge from a world too shallow to comprehend. the light doesn't shine here. nothing sh...

we find our happy place park benching with coffee, and although i don't expect it we both start crying. it's not so much the wo...

like something left out of a documentary i hit the road. shale shines like second hand silver beneath my feet & with the wind at...

it's now, or not now but not never. you promised me forever but then you forgot. i understand but i have to think about the burning. did...

developing a habit as easy as falling down. so i make my bed and gnaw the inside of my mouth, lying you myself that this will ever end...

between the scrub and the sea you'll find me. i come here for the calm, the medicinal waves changing the way that i think from cha...

it could have been another woman but it was the wine. the effect was the same, he was absent, vacant, lost to her. everything they buil...

you show me how strong you are and i show you i can take it. there are flaws in our brushstrokes but still the magic happens. and i sho...

the moon looks loosely through the window while i flirt with danger, and the drop. noise turns hollow and crickets weep from the pain ...

i wanna channel jane eyre with the voice of kathryn hepburn. i'd ride an invisible steed and together we would map the bleak landsca...

when she's paying attention she steps on no cracks and every tread has purpose. when she is unwell her footsteps tell a different s...

i have something caught in my throat. so i drop into a dreamstate (because this poem is not about me). and with my right hand          ...

each day bleeds onto itself like the day daddy sent mummy a love letter in the shape of a crowbar. every day hurts like the way the ca...

the aesthetics of fire, sharp, and to the point. the symbiosis of touch, too much. the chemistry of music when it hits my brain. the o...

they met in a land of missed connections in the year of bad timing. he came from the clouds or the mountains, high on expectations ...