Vision from Gaza For Shannon (Shay) I met her On her road to Damascus So I thought Sun shone on the grit sand Glint owning shards of light Spreading them like a warm disease of the mind She wore her hair in unfashionable ringlets Screwtapes missing That was not all Something else was Not quite […]
Month: April 2011
Dreaming ~ Never Recant, Sin
Dreaming ~ Never Recant, Sin For Amy C Walujapi carved a snakelike track Along a cliff-face Planted an impression of her buttocks When she sat This was her camp This was the beginning The beginning that never ended (not yet anyway ~ big bang) The dream of me Rests That dream of you Lives Mists […]
Song for Shannon ~ No Hiding Place in Love
Song for Shannon ~ No Hiding Place in Love for Shay Time runs away on us We have to do the best we can While we can That day we met On the internet We talked to end the world To fix it girl (and fix us too) Knowing it would never end A friend […]
(sightless sting) in the beginning, the end
(sightless sting) in the beginning, the end for Shay ‘So for now, I will follow her advice. Let’s see how long it lasts. What do you think of that?’ That was the last you wrote You signed it ‘♥ME’ You wrote this on 09 October 2008 at 8:17am My time There are 16 hours and […]
Jerusalem Mourning
Jerusalem Mourning For Hemi (and Cushla) One too many mornings Up that precipitous hill One too many beats of that sterling heart One too many longings For truth And Christ Suddenly You were gone You were gone In a manner ostentatiously matter of fact Your traveller’s litany begun … Arch and Milly would have grieved […]
First Return … the dualogue
First Return … the dualogue For Cushla 10 years ago I met a Cambridge girl At the time that seemed to be best determined as a small town in the Waikato Through our time together it has come to mean something different We use that word Cambridge to define a way of being Closed off […]
The Boys and the Biff ~ NZ Police & ‘Serving the Crown’
On Monday 05 February 2007 I had the bad luck to be assaulted. Why does this warrant even the slightest interest in a country where child killings are commonplace, gang-style executions are frequent, mindless drug-fuelled murders are perpetrated in corner dairies and assaults are as common as grains of sand on the beach? Firstly, because […]
Akróstichis #2 ~ Black Gems: Keepsakes
Akróstichis ~ Black Gems: Keepsakes For she who is hidden in the text … Just in case … the ache for eyes smiling, hands reaching Now might never be the time for this Reverence ~ not without reason ~ (Zarathustra spoke) joy ~ deeper yet than agony, but all joy justly wants eternity Joy may […]
When the Cicadas Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) ~ Regaining Control Through Self-Harm
I’ve published this before but, today being the 21st of April and To Write Love on her Arms Day (TWLOHA), I thought I’d give it another whirl. I’ve found a great, but not exclusively successful, pseudo-addiction to take the place of self-harming so I am largely recovered. But from time to time … and […]
A Transitory Mutual Ache
A Transitory Mutual Ache for Helen S ‘I like coffee, I like tea, I like Helen to jump with me ~ ‘ Isn’t that what we would say (would say ‘said’ too, older now, older) As we skip skip skipped Childhood away ‘All in together girls Never mind the weather girls When I call your […]
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