A kindhearted manstudies evil all the timesuited to the bonefor primal atonement:his flesh of breadand blood of wineseldom self-awareat borrowed prayerwith room to growhe ignores the glowan untold sufferingthrough a magickal buffering,a resounding sadnesstempered by madness,a hand-cut lullthrough his...

Above the star ceiling  there is an attic which houses   secrets and undeclared love,  decades of wreaths and erections  who told Sinatra to stop singing?    In moon river dreams, my limbs drifted   from pillow to ache within the attic    A heavy breeze from...

  Beyond the breakers  where the tides never reach,  we watched a small child flying two kites  and you said ‘that could be me and you’    Born still,  midwife's mouth turned to scissors  delivering the cruellest cut    Sometimes, the sun rises in   my bedroom at midnight  the TV...

On the edge of my waking dreams  lain as solitary skeleton under double-duvet shroud,  only my mind knows who I groped in the night  no room for ghosts or memories of teenage promises,    |f you ride the subway   m twilight to sun rise  make sure...

I tell myself stories Constantly I construct entire backstories From little innocuous events Forever confusing My invention with reality Loudly screaming my opinions In my head About all the things Nobody asked