I worked out the odds
getting into a fight
mostly it was crafted
stage managed, if you will
...
The cat sits on the garden wall
and slowly licks his paw
there are things rusting in the garden,
some to do with ships.
...
you got a smack
the minute you were born
there was a lot of hooha,
screaming
...
blue hued world
an apology
for crude extraction
you're in the
...
this sun,
this high ball of yellow
soon to stoop, but for now
it's the bladed cliff that's
...
I study her jars stacked on shelves
in the plaster peeling downstairs loo
(space is at a premium in our house)
papyrus labels gone archaeological
...
I no longer am
in the world
I'm really out of it all
I don't know the rules
...
It starts with school railings
That's where fear starts
Not with nailing to a metier cross
Beware, my child, upward straining spears,
...
They were slow moving
waters I waded in
when I was young
a long time
...
I have to see it
the way someone
from Mars would see it
that means
...