Japanese Dragon – Flash Fiction
He has a gold smile and a bell at his throat. He guards me as I write. He was a present from Japan – a place I have never been to, never will go to. I am no traveller, yet, I am drawn to delicate portrayals of Japanese life: a bridge, a hut, bright flowers.
Sky Spirit – Micropoetry
Sky Spirit is a piece of micropoetry about the ghostly, magical effect dew can have on dandelion clocks and grass. It aims to capture a line of communication extended by nature. I wrote it some years ago and have given it a little polish for a new audience. Enjoy! Sky Spirit Micropoetry It could have…
Love Song – Poetry for Dylan Thomas Day
As we lie in the swan neck of spent love, my hands play the ivory rush of your skin, summer smooth, petal keys sound out the first chord.
Off the Rails for Poetry Day Ireland
Off the Rails At midnight, the town travels, swallowed as snake joined, dot to dot houses, breathing through windows, illusion borne currents, electric gold, mirrored and flaming. In my mind, I control it, a plastic snake snapping, each click of each segment a jut of its hipless, wavering song. Holding the train between thumb and…
What I have to Say – Poetry
Can I tell you before it’s tarnished? Before the lichen crust absolves me of need to share?
Figure of Night – Poetry for Halloween
There is no figure of night pieced together from patches of dark room, scrambled light of a blink.
The Apple Tree and Storm Ophelia
‘The apple tree throws down its dead and we kneel, fools for its blackened, overripe flesh.’
Spider Nut – Poetry
Licorice legs and a walnut shell. You could be a crab, tired of the grainy shore, the glucose whirl of a gluey sea.
Fantasy’s Stamp – Poetry
Fantasy’s stamp is upon this sky From the cloud dust remains of a quartet of ghosts, they grow, gather pace on the carousel,