Tag: writing
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Lost and found
Once was lost, now am found I cut the branch, golden bough Find your Special Branch, the gun go blauwe I’m Chulainn’s hound cooling down after a spate of crimes I’m laying low in my home estate after an eight star chase. Back at the ranch, second tranche Second time in France, sign the contract…
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Escaping drudgery
You must understand my need to escape It is like I have been raped everyday for a decade This job has utterly debased me No case can be made for it Is it me or it which cannot be saved Dismayed to find it me. I am at Ballard’s exhibition of atrocities, numb to the…
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Wolf among you
Wolf in the Nikes with a peasant-frightening psyche Bars make you jump, cars scaring pheasants off the curb My mind strewn, rune-carved pages Another planet’s Book of Matthew Gaining dishonour extolling extracanonical apocryphal gospels Rarest codices available, ancient psalters from life’s cradle Cracked like magma-strifed gryke-ridden ash plains Below hellflame spilling volcanoes Eat a pan…
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Make me a dress of nature
I need something spun with leaves I need a green dress for the evening Something freeing I need a keen wrist seamstress to weave this glas dress Do justice to these descriptors I might wear a glassen slipper I’m hoping to get off with a prince, pass and own a dutchy Looking to make past…