The Beginning of a Name
So what if a name is a betrayal of eyes? How the vowel catches fire in the threat of tongue but refuses to die. Every morning begins with revolution: a boy learns all the ways a body can break into truth. & that is to say, a boy learns to love. To stand in a […]
And To Dust You Shall Return
My class has a test on Thursday, but today is Wednesday, and I am sitting in the Lady Chapel, and thinking sinful thoughts, and listening to a man who is brought in twice a term to say Mass (apparently God isn’t keen on women speaking in His house), and I am quietly memorising my index […]
WE INTERRUPT THIS MARRIAGE TO BRING YOU RUGBY SEASON
’Tis the season for men To lock living-room doors; While their wives are out for supper, Other lovers make them splutter. THERE’S our boy! Bellows affirm an Alexander Bronze-built With a mouthguard grin, musk and ‘good hands’. He assumes position Among loinclothed Olympians Shoulder to shoul
Lamentations of a Bacchant in Menopause
Venues for orgies are low in demandSince the Cadmean press last shut us downDionysus has turned grapes to Pinot NoirAnd belladonna to bumps.This week’s sacrifices are speed-lacedThough we heralds of the Bacchae proclaim:10/10 CHEETAH HAZE 3.5GS ONLY THE BEST!!What Theban dynasties thundered agains