Found
Entering the mausoleum that was once our home I smell you immediately. I’ve only been away for a while and yet your animal scent has grown and blossomed in the rooms like you are still here. You are...
View ArticleWinter of Love
I am brittle and abandoned. Like gilt leaves shed by the selfish tree. Discarded. As you wilfully discarded me. I am damp and distraught. Like wind whipping drizzle against cheeks. Cold As you were...
View ArticleWeathering the Storm
There’s a deep black cloud approaching. I see it in the distance and hear its discontented grumbles fracturing this golden day. Its rages may hurt us, It’s wild winds rip at our hearts, but yet, we’ll...
View ArticleWhen death do us part
If I go first don’t weep and reel or let sorrow fill you. Keep your tears. But, place my picture on the mantel, remember summers in the sun, and smile. Though I won’t see it it’s comforting to me now...
View ArticleInsanity
If ever I go completely insane I’ll wring my hands and call your name I’ll hide behind a wall of pain and flit and flick and shout and scream and flash dark eyes toward the corner where you hide. If...
View ArticleStrangers
And when the sun came I saw his eyes narrow and sharp against that dazzling light His lips so rich and firm before were closed and locked against my soft caress Through hotel-grey sheets, where hours...
View ArticleNot fun, not fair
He looked like a gypsy. Brown curls and dark eyes, small sparkling white teeth. How could I resist him, those heartbeats and goosebumps girly giggles betrayed? Swept up by the funfair, bright...
View ArticleIt’s not my birthday
It was my daughters’ birthday yesterday. I always think it should be the parents who should celebrate birthdays, after all, it’s me who remembers it. In fact I remember it in crisp and clear detail....
View ArticleI say ‘tomato’…
Writing 101, day 5. Use a quote as inspiration. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls Fill each other’s cup but drink not from...
View ArticleOrigami
I am a paper butterfly drifting on fickle winds damaged by stormy weather I search for comfort but there is none I am folding inward each crisp line contorting and reducing I no longer rustle when you...
View ArticleOrigami #3
I am a paper flower with no colour or scent to distinguish me Alone in the wilderness fragile layers of tissue petals wither and tremble Desiccated they crumble exposing my core where sweetness should...
View ArticleAlways Red?
Can feelings show up in the blood? The scarlet concealer of secrets that courses through our veins yet congeals so quickly in the air When tested it reveals disease and sickness of our mortal vessels...
View ArticleAugust
I lurch through the damp eyed days and bitter nights of endless Autumn thinking of your summer love bathed in warmth salty tousled hair sand leaching on amber limbs champagne sunsets and steamy...
View ArticleUnderneath
On our third date In the hope that you might stay I chose red underwear Now I only ever wear mis-matched grey
View ArticleStorm Brewing
We sat on a bench Watching the seething sky While the merciless wind Whipped at our cheeks When tenderly you took my hand You said you’d die for me You said you’d die for me Yet that was long ago...
View ArticleDalliance
Lets go down to the bluebell wood to lie beneath the new sprung leaves and let the patterns of their shadows dance upon our bodies And we’ll snuggle to annul the fresh spring breeze which bears the...
View ArticleKissless
I watched for more than a moment were you in my sightline or was I just staring You were taking selfies head thrown back glass raised laughing and grinning hugging best buddies you didn’t glance...
View ArticleIn the Park
Poplars throw piano key shadows on labyrinthian paths while the military flowers nod together complaining of the heat Kids paddle in the pool sucking on lollies which stain their icy lips Couples lay...
View ArticleSailing
In the death throe of our love we are becalmed going nowhere in this ocean Should we abandon this stilted conversation before the tide turns and waves overwhelm or wait until our tongues untie the...
View ArticleThe Marriage Dance
Remember when we swayed clasped body to body, drunk with love, while people watched and cooed and cheered Lost on our rocking boat the dancefloor filled with friends and excited children without us...
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