19 January 2020
Then you’ll kiss long-legged boys and feel the pain
of mermaids afraid of the waves they’ve swum…
Continue reading...19 January 2020
pastes that will stain lips the shade of Penelope’s,
bitten and kissed after twenty years.
Continue reading...25 January 2020
WOLF 2020 poetry competition awards , Sun 2nd Feb, 3.30, Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Continue reading...04 February 2020
their busy busy busy bodies sucking,
sharing saliva and vomiting in sweet frenzy,
Continue reading...04 February 2020
I could have told you why Socrates wasn’t afraid to die;
that for him death was either a single night of dreamless sleep,
or else a chance to walk and talk with the dead,
Continue reading...26 October 2020
came home beneath a moon whose face grinned pink as the giant’s
sniffing and waiting for me at the top of a bean-stalk.
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