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“Growth”
If my fortunes should one day fade, And experience dull the sharp edge of fame, And popularity precipitate out of its false solution ...
georginabarley
Feb 28, 20212 min read


“Neverland.”
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...
georginabarley
Sep 16, 20191 min read


“Paper cuts.”
We live by the light of shadows: Absent figures cut their silhouettes Behind Act V curtains, Where paper dolls flirt In the muted hush...
georginabarley
Aug 5, 20191 min read


“Skyline.”
The skyline is jagged with cranes – dipping fishing lines into tracheal tunnels, to dredge compliments out of the brine and the...
georginabarley
Oct 1, 20181 min read


“Radiowaves”
4am draws a bath surrounding island limbs, nail polish the shape of foreign countries in chipped enamel, signalling semaphore...
georginabarley
Sep 13, 20171 min read


“Focus”
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...
georginabarley
Feb 5, 20171 min read


“Tower”
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: ...
georginabarley
Oct 29, 20161 min read


“Archaeology”
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...
georginabarley
Sep 30, 20161 min read


Reflection II.
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...
georginabarley
Sep 23, 20162 min read


Reflection I.
Remember The sands can run backwards – And I’ve seen Right into the heart of somewhere intoxicating: The Archer has shot his arrow ...
georginabarley
Sep 21, 20161 min read


“Nulla”
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...
georginabarley
Jul 26, 20162 min read


“The Dreaming”
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...
georginabarley
Jul 25, 20162 min read
“Touch”
I. If your touch could liquefy The frozen music of architecture, I’d want to sit where the silence would fall. Seek the space in the...
georginabarley
Aug 30, 20152 min read
“Greet Talk Talk Seduce Play”
Checking my score on the DLR Measuring the social bar: This tally card of the day, I find Makes a sim of me, All my sins multiplied ...
georginabarley
Aug 30, 20151 min read


“An Encounter”
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...
georginabarley
Jun 28, 20152 min read
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