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18 Mar 2024

Sam Clegg

When I was ten Sam Clegg cut my hair Waiting for my turn I read Phantom comics Then he waved me Up to the chair Didn’t ask what I wanted Gave me the regular crewcut Then like a magician Whipped the cape from my body All the way home my skin itched From lose hair under my collar.

17 Mar 2024

How The Cherry Blossom Trees Bloom

I pluck the petals from my daisy. “Does he love me? Does he not?” As a kid, I asked you whether you liked butter. Do you remember my sweet buttercup? I still recall when you asked me out. A bouquet of roses, a suit and tie. I told you my name was Poppy Just before we kissed goodbye. Our favourite dates were the ones amongst the tulips Sweet, like...

17 Mar 2024

Waves of Bliss

In the waves of Your bliss I arise for the whole and my heart beats so softly, flutters — a moth, and it rattles like thunder, pulses like a volcano, it breaks out with lava and moths — to Your gloom, to Your gleam; and who passed, will occur. And I desire for neither life nor death; for life and death I seek.

17 Mar 2024

The Desert

Walking, walking, one foot a metronome follows the other. Why can’t the back one stop, take command and declare, “That’s enough”? But what else to do? We’re in this place, this post amniotic stew with a void behind, ahead, cool mountain peaks and springs beyond the next dune or the next, who knows, but we’ve been promised this by those who...

16 Mar 2024

THE SNAKESKIN (Revised)

The dry snakeskin a devil’s glove left under the tree what had been and what will be again. And when he came Tapping at the door The uninvited Black hat and coat The silver in his hand All souls have their price The women wailed The pale child. Death, he comes so quietly takes his due and leaves what cannot grow.

15 Mar 2024

Dear Little Goat

O' my lovely goat, I hope you don't hate me For calling you mine. I know someone else raised you, And probably there are many charmers Who make you smile. But for me, you've been the only one, Keeping whom, I'd feel happy in the long run. Your shiny eyes, Your perfect face, That bright skin, You're like a perfect sketch. And who am I?...

14 Mar 2024

The futility of betrayals

These days I often get this thought, If I could just know their whereabouts Who were once called my friends, For whom I stood in heat and rain. Then I see, I should not worry, For betraying their hero, they are not even sorry. When the knife tears the flesh, it hurts But that's only in the moment. Once inside, the pain is gone There is...

13 Mar 2024

The Snakeskin

The dry snakeskin, a devil’s glove left under the tree, what had been and what will be again. And then came the man in his hat and coat pale hands, blackened hair who palmed the silver that payed the guest who opened the door and came into the room. Death, he comes so quietly takes his due and leaves what cannot grow.

12 Mar 2024

Lost

Your hand was so cold it could have reached up from the grave when you stumbled over a root from an ancient oak and flailed out for mine, almost bringing me down. As you held onto me your eyes crackled with fear primordial as the forest floor’s green ooze, and I wished I could see your face clearly again, spattered with broken moonlight through...

11 Mar 2024

Black Autumn

Black autumn trees and leaves pressed in the ground it happens every time when birds disappear and someone said hearts still get broken in the cold. A blackbird standing in a tree.

09 Mar 2024

Beware Golden Bear

Standing on the cliff, jump in sight My son is about to take flight Soon he’ll be on his own Stepping off into the unknown, From me to you Golden Bear, Ashton will soon be there! With all the potential in the world If you help his mind unfurl, Good luck KU And Ashton too Go give it a whirl Step up and shock the world!

06 Mar 2024

Soup

Everything is soup. Soup is water. Everything contains water. Strawberries are soup. Trees are soup. Grass is soup. We are soup. Your grandma's cat, soup. Your dad's toenails, soup. That homeless old man's corpse sitting on the side of the road, soup. I hate soup.

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