The
Dark Fairground

 

 

  Memory Theatre

And these,
whose bones are these?
Touch them. They
are the bones of
every day you claim
you can’t remember.
Courier

I don’t recognise
the things you say.
Words – like a string of head-butts –
come bobbing from your mouth.




Our Story

My carcass
guttering the same
dark well.
Its soft rib-cage
scratches a whisper
in the mud.




Happy Birthday

I need a tongue
to flush the big
crisp bag out –

freckled shoulders
crowd
a small boy’s body.




To Choose a Road

Pecking golden nuggets
smudged beaks heave
a quick biography.
Ghosts recall
their human suffering.




Desire

Desire scars
a fierce threshold.
Oaths compact
carnival parturition.

 


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