Angels

August 4, 2025

Cane


You think leaving lights on before you sleep is easy

But you don’t fight, she said,

Busy Never Fearing Dying

June 21, 2025

Bright Flight


I realise I never feared dying.

A303

June 7, 2025

Bright Flight


The A303 is my favourite road.

Silvery Chewing Gums

June 1, 2025

Triple Lip


They beat me, left slumped a pile of thigh capitals

Chances

June 1, 2025

Cane


there is
nothing

Girl Limbed Boy Brains

June 1, 2025

Bright Flight


I’m a man, maybe that’s why

Drill Dog Maple

June 1, 2025

Bright Flight


I woke up, the world was lightly lent.

Despair

June 1, 2025

Triple Lip


Stayed up writing, shot himself

Pregabalin

June 1, 2025

Bright Flight


Malignant New Jersey.

Moon Rain

May 26, 2025

Triple Lip


there’s a stain

Certain Dreams

May 26, 2025

Places Uncertain and Likely to Pass By


The new day was ushered in like a keg of flies.

I Wear a Neck

November 12, 2024

The Meta Economic


the old man I met…

Waking Up Is Hard To Do

November 12, 2024

The Meta Economic


It’s the waking that I hate. She girl-rubs her eyes…

Orange Fruit

November 12, 2024

Triple Lip


The swollen nectarine
eyes of a deer, like coin-glints…

Watermelon

September 14, 2024

Places Uncertain and Likely to Pass By


Lydia’s parents had made
that decision together and
Ben found himself wondering

F Is For Belonging

September 14, 2024

Places Uncertain and Likely to Pass By


My dad untied the oldest looking boat on the shore from a stand of hawthorn trees.

Monkeys

July 9, 2024

Triple Lip


These words are
about being alive

Native

July 9, 2024


Rain has so much room.

How

July 9, 2024


They woke me up
to tell me that I
had been
screaming.

Trophy

May 28, 2024


I knew a hunter, a great great great uncle of mine, who hunted elephants in colonial India, during the final brutal unwinding of the British Empire.

Heartbeating Clay

May 28, 2024


I’m wide awake, my voice is a cracked rock.

Nowness

May 28, 2024


You make it out the bedroom door.

One Zero Zero

May 28, 2024


We had been living on each other routinely.

It Is More and More Within Walking the grey side of the river, it was as if it had been evening since dawn. He said, ‘You know, one day – all of this pain – will be like a distance we do not need to approach.’ ‘Like one meant for a stranger.’ ‘The grief will […]

Mad Peaceful

March 11, 2024


Wild white horse
turns his difficult eyes
toward the horizon.
The eyes are scattered
with veins.

Alarm Featuring Ear Plugs

March 11, 2024


The blankets feel
heavy to depressives
but for this abnormality
they are grateful;

Buying Houses

March 11, 2024


He turned on the lamp with the switch on its gold-leaf pole.

Elephant Eye

February 8, 2024


The elephant perseveres
A few tender treads

Narcissist Love

January 30, 2024


I will let you worship

Years and Years

January 30, 2024


Time had taken its forgetful feet
to the back of the room.

Heroes

January 11, 2024


The writer could not tell

Blossom

January 9, 2024


The trees are beautiful this time of year. They hang here in the tininess resting until they can’t bear to any longer.

For a solid month I tried
to think of something new to say about rivers.

Abattoir

January 4, 2024


Rudy Speck climbs into his pick-up and drives away from an argument with his wife.

Delicacy the Deer

January 4, 2024


Sweet. Small. The brain turning
on a quiet neck.

Tiger Leopard Pear

December 14, 2023


Old buckets make music from the rain
that dampens and fades out
the more rain that falls.

We’re In a Love Song

December 14, 2023


you tell me I spend too much time asleep
in the caressing addiction of my duvet

Summer Wicks

December 14, 2023


The stars are glued to the sky tonight. You can almost smell the milky way igniting the silver tops of our silos.

God’s Got An Outfit

December 14, 2023


Lord, please let me know the details. Allow me to dress.

Oil Rig: Luther

November 20, 2023


https://theauburnmanual.art/oil-rig-luther/

66th Tower

November 14, 2023


And before we end the evening, I want to share with you a
story. It’s about a man I knew, a man I suppose I would still
know.

Kid Named Alban

November 14, 2023


I teach guitar to this kid named Alban in a little room on Tuesdays.

Good Morning, Small Lover

November 14, 2023


Seeds will blow across the dark garden. I’ll be putting on my goodbye hat.

For My Dog

November 14, 2023


Lips like cutlets of meat.

American Death Row

November 14, 2023


Many years of still air had left the phone booth across the
causeway rusted and sacred.

Facts About The Moon

November 14, 2023

Poetry


The moon is made of salt, durex, dimes, and buckets of glue.

Bright Things

May 28, 2023


It must be true that only the moon and the stars know…

Living River

May 28, 2023


It’s been a healthy day. The fisherman came in with a basket of
freshwater trout and someone buried their lifeboat in the dark
green reeds…

Truck Driver: One Evening

May 20, 2023

Poetry


The moon was damp and hanging in the distance. The
silhouette collection of mountains perched like jigsaw edges
beneath the evening sky glued together by scarlet orange, by
doubtful maroon, looked upon everything as eye-wateringly
sung…