Monday, December 26, 2022

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Thoughts in my head at this very minute

 Thoughts in my head at this very minute

 

About a man’s memories, so different from a woman’s memories

About one’s pride and righteousness

About the other’s guilt and weariness

About eating batter-fried prawns tossed with garlic and butter

About the crispy, chewy, delectable flesh in my mouth

About a blue dress, blue eyeshadow, blue, blue, blue

About my heart and what it would feel like if it stopped right this instant

About smoking a cigarette, taking a long puff, and exhaling slowly through my nose

About a man, in a car, in his room, under the moon

About another man, the only face that brings me to violence

About children, a child, my child, in this world, with me, alone

About the beginning of things, about the end of things

And how the beginning is also the end, and the end is also the beginning

About flowers, about cats, about babies,

About parallel universes, about Bukowski, about dreams

About agency, about freedom, about love, about labour

About things I don’t want to remember in words

And words I don’t want to remember any more

About escape, about distractions, about sleep

About enough, about too much

 

Thursday, July 28, 2022

 No, I cannot wake up,

No, I do not have your heart,

No, I will not meet the undead,

No, I cannot care anymore,

No, I do not know how to,

No, I will not search the mirror,

No, I cannot let go—right now or ever,

No, I do not think I can bear to look at you,

No, I will not open the door,

No, I cannot dream another dream,

No, I do not know how to do this anymore,

No, I will not be the midnight moon’s whisper.

No, I cannot get up off the floor,

No, I do not know how it happened,

No, I will not hang up my gloves,

No, I am not quite done

No, thank you,

No.


 

Sunday, May 01, 2022

I suppose I'd have a better go at affection

Had I any sense of self-preservation

But here I am, plucking out my last eyelash

And wishing it away, once again, on you

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Tuesday, March 01, 2022

How many poems does it take for the sum of grief and resentment raised to the power of loneliness and divided by the difference between joy and numbness to tend to zero?