I have a 365 day poem book, and I don’t really use it much. I get this idea at the beginning of every year that I’m going to write a poem draft every day, and I get up to maybe day four and never touch it again. … Continue reading »Resolutions and Poem Drafts
It was, as is so often the case, the cover that caught my eye. I was in Unity Books, browsing the stacks for a bit of contemporary something or other. Something a little bit femme fatale suited my mood. … Continue reading »REVIEW: Pretty Dirty Things
Toynbee idea in movie 2001 resurrect dead plan Jupiter Everyone is entitled to their own mythology. Set your rhetorical devices, and keep them charged. Max Headroom – I still see the X They built a complex … Continue reading »POEM: The Strange Signals of Being Human
Many dreams and darkness into uncounted minutes It’s hard to stay here counting missed medications I find some comfort in the night but I wake up with the guilt of not sleeping It’s hard to stay here counting missed medications … Continue reading »POEM: Amitriptyline
They should not have come. The stars sat above with silver hats And golden eyes, whispering platinum secrets to the distant drops of steel that stalked so far below. And here the steel-men’s goal: With diamond secrets threaded through their … Continue reading »POEM: The Hunters
I try to avoid envy but I am a post-therapy artist. Lover of foul language and Bad Thoughts Visitors from insomnia A word needs inventing for when she climbs down from the sky I try to avoid envy but … Continue reading »POEM: Unchaste
Look at me, getting another blog post written on the right day like some kind of competent motherfucker. Little do they know I’m pulling things out of the ether at 9pm on a Wednesday with no plan! So anyway, read … Continue reading »Uphill Grind