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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Greetings Angel – The Messenger Has Come!
Greetings Angel – The Messenger Has Come! not for Shay, but because of her Citrus In the night air Midnight in that garden Of good (and evil) Oh, yeah! Lemon-scented Moon-riddled Almost De La Renta But not Not so cheap Not But not real either Just The scent of summer Night Summer night … But […]
Hope Springs ~ Gifts Renounced
Hope Springs ~ Gifts Renounced for my parents Underneath That lamplight Over there Over there By the ~ By the ~ By the ~ As early As infanthood You told me and I said no Sitting at that table Wooden table Wooden child Pinocchio in shorts and shirt (oh no no no no blouse) Old […]
Seamless Dressing (and Undressing) ~ Every Actor’s Dream
Seamless Dressing (and Undressing) ~ Every Actor’s Dream for Cushla Watching you Spending so much time watching you Slipping With such ease Into whatever coat is expected Seamless Dressing And Seemingly As easily undressing Disrobing the one To assume the other You Are The Actor Hamlet Was written for Hard to say that Rosalind was […]
Channels
Channels for Shay There you are Clear As air Ice cold as a winter morning in Central Park Or snow-bound on the mainstreet of Oslo I am crying and it’s not me It’s you I am channelling you You are cold To me you are cold You bring no sweet release Only sustenance Soul food […]
Angel Dew
Angel Dew for Shay Echo There is a night sound Called echo I am lead to believe A sound in the anchored night Locked in memory That exiting moment of light into space Then into dark Before the pink queen stands by you Sends faerie into mourning for you And you are alone but for […]
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