Baggage Claim
Our suitcases stutter forward, past packets and tins, slices and loaves. I catch myself in every reflective surface. Wrinkled shirt in the countertop; slick,blotchy profile looming in the cool glass of the cloches; wisps of manic hair creeping in the sunglasses atop so many heads. It is almost a rel
Weather Vein
It’s been weeks since a storm like this— Paper cups are smooth, flammable, and hazardously placed in my hand. I am drunk at a party and the music is too loud. It is creeping up my spine A static hum that rattles the bones of my inner ear, Any second now it’s going […]
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
Pantone 151
I raise a glass of Aldi malbec to the patchworktapestry that threads me back to you. To learningto read in your womb and spell to the beat of ‘Back to Black’ over tarot for tea – servedat the dining table (that cornerstone of FacebookMarketplace couture) you scoured from ash to mauve-matte; c
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
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