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Vacation Poetry
& this is it / in the Gargoyle’s smile / like a treasured curse
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Nov 4, 2025
Psalm 07:58
Reflect in the morning and wait patiently for sin; / Do not rush because of those who venture this way, / Because of the "Man" carrying out his whitey schemes.
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Oct 2, 2025
Fade
On the day before the UK is finally left to go fuck itself / I watch a politely forced interview in my British front room / David Cameron is looking like he's just come after dropping a bomb of Molly
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Jan 31, 2020
Night Callers
You appeared to me during the mind's violence / That presents itself as the diving board of sleep in witching hours / More a hologram outside the boundaries of life's time than any dream
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Oct 29, 2019
Lessons From Any Art
A spectacular butterfly / splendid in its monochrome, leopard-print reflecting armour / flies unto the lavender branches
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Jun 28, 2019
The Sorrow
Her baby was buried / in a grave alongside 827 other babies. / Who knew no mothers.
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Apr 19, 2019
Acting Up
In Waterstones / Sighing at the bestsellers / opaque at the corner of my right
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Jan 9, 2019
An Old Tibetan Rug (Translation)
Your soul, which loves my own, / Is woven with it into an old Tibetan rug. / Strand by strand, these enamored colours,
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Dec 16, 2018
Unexpected Autumn
The happy shouts from the playground display / the jumps and twists that brought them / by sun that steals the chill away
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Oct 4, 2018
Roth Rests
Roth was a great lover of music / Old-timely big band show times that evoked memories in living rooms across white America / Provoking melancholia for what was assumed lost.
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May 27, 2018
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