A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME

Before dawn before the daybirds 

Take over from the owls before

The gorgon gaze has been turned

Before the clustered chaos before

The cosmic winds carry us away

Before the clenched jaw splinters before

Vast seas of ink coalesce on walls before

The earth creaks open and man gushes forth

Before the domains of cold sweat and fear before

You reach out in the night and there yes, here I am 

HOME REMEDY

"Curse the beasts the dogs
Lap at your heels COUGH!
Feed that hair to the hound
Eat well sire, that you may be sick
And I may be sound

Now let us head over
To the dogdamn chess game
On the mainroad, white clean
Or burnt black choose careful
First get that cap off my bed
If you see the doctor, throw
This here apple at his head"

England, in the time of colds
You'd say to neck a low throat toad
Or despite winter, to spite winter
Bathe in the brown water
Cureall, brackish apothecary
You nude as a seal's flapper
Grey and going down under said
"I suppose this is all see you later"

SOLOIST

All night, 

Asleep on the beach

I lift one red lid

A gull is on my nose

Saying look at me

I'm not a crisp packet

Or an 80s hotel

REMEMBRANCE OF FORMER THINGS

Because in the dark that dissolves

Her outline more bright and terrible

So red she glowed like hot glass

We ran out looking back at her

Screaming look look look to doors

Long closed 'it's the pissing middle

of bloodybones night!' but then they saw

Slack jawed they window watched her 

And because in the dark that dissolves

Not glass now, but glowing steel, hissing

The rain and steam - all were afraid to say

So I said it 'love' and knew the word

But because in the dark that dissolves

She was ate up, kaput, gone

And everyone went to bed trembling

But I shook my head, I had known her

Then at least but words are too weak

And because in the dark that dissolves 

I cannot carry it and so now tremble too