Month: Jan 2026
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Lifestealing earthlurches
A massive explosion shakes the classroom Clocks judder, blocks scatter, pictures clatter Valley peoples scattered like dead man’s ashes No more this slow, placid time of asking.
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Told the sun to fuck off and it went out forever
Incision above the cloud’s beltline Sky colour bleached limes, a no-patch cow Sun gut peeking out Enough sun, it’s petering out now Black rabbit souls, those ash clouds Sounds of armies clashing High up in the mountain passes Staining the glaciers The sun went out forever Like a hobo.
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Slim suit size, looking antichrist nice
A great black basking shark Circles the Blasket at night Invisible in the his-eye dark Only those who bear the mark Can sell and bring their goods to market.
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Arabian speeds
Dependent on drugs, no floaties jump the boat Chuck myself in at the deep end Gem-ended the pendant Hugging my wife’s breast, gold thread at throat Platinum and gold mixture enfolding an opal No less than the best, looking royal out in Tallaght Looking met gala, look at this crooked fuck we met in Kinsala…
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Airmiles in ermine
Regretting what I gained by tact That I could have taken by attack Loathing all sense of former restraint Heavy saintgaze kept me straying Now waylaid, far as Clane from Australia Payloads just off planes Like footclenching John McClane.
Alchemisland 