Graham Leese

I could sleep for trails
of silk in the wind
to carry us
through crystal sands with
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Selfishly stuffing; I take the
Fat, pleasure and grease-
Convert it into vomit.
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It simply doesn’t course
through my veins
power a beaten heart
prolong a broken
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Humour comes at the most
inappropriate times, like
nuns trying out love beads.
Giggles, whether sly and
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Outside’s Asgard blue, air cold and virile. Unseen ribbons
Tangle mid flight mid air, a brush by the thigh, shoulder.
Breath hangs like an explosion of sudden shadow except
It is silence, translucent, light. Motion slips, traffic just another
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When the sky went that peculiar orange-pink

Grapefruit hue I sold all I had and ever needed,
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Ironing out the creases always seems
To leave deep seated burns upon my chest;
Laying such dead to rest we let
The streetlamp glance at best.
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With eased manipulation August
is now a timeless November, the
memories are altered not as you
remember. Contrast tweaked-
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Wading through the tar-
It seems November has died
Of some kind of cancer.
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Lurking in resin shadow, floating
In skin’s cloudspace; a distant sunset
And the shimmering ocean’s grace.
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Mud begins to grow
Its skin again; the pools
Of silver reflection
Collecting like the dead
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Animals started tumbling
from their shelves
seemed
the pet store’s climbing. Mountains
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Foetal, white sand spreads
like salmon upstream, hoards
on the motorway. Anxiety and ample
cramps devour fish out of the waters
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Rhythms sound
like that of pitter patter.Tick
tock turns to palms on the skin
of tabla. Eyes dart like
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Though the stars look down on you;
Through dark subways, subterranean
Paths dissonance dissects itself in front,
In front of me and I am lone, one with
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This wickers’ stacks
Of excuses, vast empires
Of bracken ready to burn
Beneath an unhealthy visage.
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Your miscalculations precede you,
bright and colourful sashes twist
and twirl ‘round like barbed wire
wrapped ‘round a true love.
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