I thought I heard you at the door. Sent a stack of invitations (withheld – returned – ignored) But none of them were yours. Years anaesthetised, Wading through (don’t say molasses) Just to find a better metaphor to summarise The dual-wielding numbness and agony of complacency – Down the drain For my own sake, For heaven’s sake: Why did you forsake me for So long? But not goodbye. A revenant – You rose (tinted) again, A hitch through the stitched fabric of time Extracting an o

If my fortunes should one day fade, And experience dull the sharp edge of fame, And popularity precipitate out of its false solution ...

I’ve sunk my metaphors into unmarked plots – Like teeth into the skin of an apple (If you like) Wanting the sweet flesh to yield, To give...

and we may never land on the value that sufferance cost us but Neverland is just one too many tube stops past caring and you won’t find...

(Let’s take a walk) Knee-deep in nettles and the weather tipping change – Thick silt raising spirits Beating through the new-grown...

We live by the light of shadows: Absent figures cut their silhouettes Behind Act V curtains, Where paper dolls flirt In the muted hush...

The skyline is jagged with cranes – dipping fishing lines into tracheal tunnels, to dredge compliments out of the brine and the...

4am draws a bath surrounding island limbs, nail polish the shape of foreign countries in chipped enamel, signalling semaphore...

Remember staring at those Magic Eyes? I can sure remember being blind – Didn’t even know the trick I couldn’t find; Nose getting closer...

This ivory tower is bricked up with soap blocks: So when hard Hope knocks she’ll knuckle-dust Fine white-fleck blizzards to remind us: ...

They’ll dig us up in a thousand years And dust off the bone-idle lust: Tripping along the path to the weir Past the bolder-hearted...

Back to the start. “We should just go, I’ve had enough of this.” I’m sorry – What did you say? Mon ami, It’s really that simple: A...

Remember The sands can run backwards – And I’ve seen Right into the heart of somewhere intoxicating: The Archer has shot his arrow ...

In tennis there’s Love in a zero, But not in Roman numerals. That’s a digit in absentia; Love is absent there. Nulla, void – Null: a...

I dreamt a dream last night. I dreamt there was only One Life: That the universe was dreaming through us all, Meeting all motion and...

“Knight and noble lie around him.” You’ve made your bed, to lie in. So lie in it. And don’t lie to me. For a minute I believed You...

We slip-slide past each other, Like honeycomb-slick layers of graphite. I fall into you for an instant And inhale a future that lingers...