On the medical examiner’s table: Women’s bodies. Wolves’ bodies. Rigor-mortis limbs like life-size dolls. Blood-matted fur flayed over blinding-bright silver. Sterile crucifix, its cleansing come too late. Antiseptic room, tile echoes, fluorescent lights. Lysol lining throat and nose. A territory for the masked and shielded. The antithesis of dark, tangled forests and the smell of earth. Of gritty asphalt alleys and the odour of rot. Of plush carpeted bedrooms and vanilla-sce

A stick-sketched heart survives the ebbing tide. Scalloped lines, curve, swell and taper rolling over hard and soft sand – fresh wind blows arcs of spray, revealed wetlands reflect argent sunlight. Driftwood creatures throw shadow-beings larger than themselves. My own shadow looms Ageless, it strokes all it over-casts: seaweed posies, pebbles barnacled redundant shells, dismembered crabs, stark igneous rocks, and clumsy lumps of concrete. No thing has straight lines. Ca

ALDI Someone told me, the man across the way in our avenue, who wears shopping bags on his feet, also works in a meat factory. But this is strange, as he’s told me he is a vegetarian. On Tuesday I followed him around Aldi. He wore a leather coat, like the skin on a baked potato, his hair was fish oil, and his feet rustled inside the bags he wore. In his trolley, he had dumped bananas, oranges, steak, burgers, haddock, cheese, meatballs with chillies, full-fat milk, dark choco

Runaway This crown of feathers masked strangers bestowed upon me makes my eyes itch to the point of tears, tears that roll down my cheeks and find the corners of my mouth, my silent tongue drinking greedily of them, tasting the secrets of those strangers who offer trinkets to children willingly lost from their homes. To Suffer A Nightmare Alone A pinprick of red light, flashing on, off, at the very limit of my vision, is helping me fight slumber as I sit at the curtain-less w

I suppose, it is easy to forget shadows. How they move and feel. Their utter nothingness at the edge of vision. Tendrils reaching, enveloping, and then, pushed away. Somewhere, in this, there is light. Stars in the darkness. But, distance can be vast. So vast, that light will never reach the dying body. Away. Away. Away. Silent shattering. Drowning. Death in cerebrospinal fluid. Breathe. Breathe.