I saw the little figures looking cute and medieval elaborate costumes, so delightful an ancient ritual marginalia in excelsis hello summer! I wasn’t too sure about today’s GloPoWriMo prompt: “to write a poem of ekphrasis — that is, a poem inspired by a work of art. But I’d also like to challenge you to base your poem […]
Steam In shower Mixes with tears Wash them all away Goodbye London Once again Messed my mind It’s always a bittersweet Encounter You can never go home again yet I am here Today’s GloPoWriMo prompt was to write a double elevenie. What’s that? Well, an elevenie is an eleven-word poem of five lines, with […]
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The rules of the game don’t engage when everyone’s insane or all too sane and out for what they can get innit every journey takes an hour no standing in the upper deck (gosh I feel tall up there tho) the things you learn like never get off transport that’s still moving towards home no matter […]
It’s urgent for me Is it urgent for you? Yes, good Let’s go Hold my hand I won’t let you fall step lightly on gossamer threads of dreams / our heaviness bags down the quicksilver / distractions greying out clarity / into fat bottoms of despair and swooping rebounds / hope, brilliance, the creative urge […]
as the night draws in I think about one of the few people I can cry with or rage while the dark music of your northern home I never went to plays and in dark-blue eyes you watched once as I wasted away staring at my own reflection but you told me today to invert […]
in the middle of love in the middle of life in the middle of London what am I to do? I could do a fuck-lot worse than being stuck in the middle with you We are in London for a dear friend’s wedding … Prompt: Because we’re halfway through NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo today, I’d like […]
coffee converging in conversation pulls page-long pathways across procrastination files of fiery photons like flying foxes inklings, darlings! ideas, sparking alighting at an allied assignation thinking, darling, of a car ride with cousins cocooned in comfort very like visions, varied yet uniform of factory windows fitted with fliers from inside, darling… oh, how my heart […]
1. The only decent thing you own. Can be appropriate for almost any occasion 2. A uniform. A way to disappear 3. Coveted. Searched for high and low. Discovered. Too expensive. Maybe next month 4. Too short. She was asking for it 5. Jean Paul Gaultier – skirts for men – catwalk excitement 6. Heat. A […]
can you stain your face white? hide your lips behind a dark rose? can you wear black hair like a habit even if you’re not a nun (maybe adopt her severity) can you paint your eyes in liquid lines and hide or is the truth never quite disguised can you garb yourself in widows […]
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