Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Heat Spell
steam anchor down
cruciform fizz cup
this needs a torch
wear a crown Jonny
shearing the corona
cross thee over
sham key nails
on a mannequin lever
rag moth
bones need a coat
Ethel snake
a round of dice
caught on Broxa
rocksy dolls house
clockwise and
anti-strainer
arrow oil
grey fader
racing blues
lost your mood
out board trash
parallel jumpstart
trap the felon heart
and I've dropped a stitch
are you piranha
are you karma
are you flying ant day
thunder wings
and secrets come undone
fever shock like
Scorpio armour
foil I think
of armagnac blisters
truly flame out
glove ice hand
waxy slip tied
soul dust
Nero fan track
some empire
wake up Annis
pan burn
catty lusion
tear refinery
claw snaring
trenchy resister
crimson seen staring
stay in one place
love rust alley
I know you're there
anaemic injection
correction box
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Monday, 15 July 2013
down the well
going on a move lots of pockets in a jacket army surplus for note books numbers sums in my head sense of direction never could do that road works and palm trees in the atrium he doesn't travel anymore windows without the lift and pull open but I can't stay in one town even if they call it a city and why would you want to leave our trains had doors that would fly open hundreds of mph then she wouldn't be able to get out stuck left it too late and going somewhere she didn't want to beyond the ticket first year in danger car with steel rule stanley strangle wire sits on her own thinking of all the damage she'll have time for if the opportunity made himself known mother didn't worry she knew I carried a knife estates drawn on the side of a roman road bus stops are really loud up north people really do have television voices or nothing's stopped there for weeks and the end of the queue is where the last person wants to go lucky for them this place isn't very good and it's home and has been for generations guide books never say that and looks so nice in the picture can I have a return please no we haven't cracked our skulls timetable gospels over the tannoy reverse at five which one of us is least likely to get searched boot lace undone captain why haven't you got a ticket to be honest I couldn't face getting off at my station so I'm here I see just pay at the window train jam five stacked up evening into night she can see home and hungry summer night looting rush hour freeze outside hours before anything moved not everyone had a seat office girls in high heels got down on the track and started walking guards shouted get back in that's too dangerous all that time breathing in body heat and the windows let too much from out in doors don't open till we stop at a station he lived closest got a bus east us four finding our stop heat drunk and london that time is so silent a grassy area with a swing and sand pit tower blocks and business anything natural living here keeps it to themselves he knows he's lived here for years gritty urban concrete beach do you two know where you're going get a train with me no we know we're enjoying the scenery we know the way we might be later station gates locked left hanging about outside taxi drivers get ready for I just want to get home don't care how much waiting room's locked and the drinks worn off you better get off the cleaners are female and might think you're drunk if I'm not drunk why else would I be here lean into the bend and hope there's no ice four of us got home just keep her walking we will know once I see the river or not actually notice it until bridges day light he got there road blocks people filming from windows record the event action fires don't get out they're in hoods throwing bricks they're kids this is a passenger announcement you'll get killed we couldn't hear it from a night bus south I was just walking and someone shouted out of a car what you wearing I'd been feeling the weight of false legs very old two hundred and fifty the set cross over on the blind corner she sang as she walked home in a new place for company emergency things or a long time ago with her best mate further from the station soaked and mascara runs knew that road well found my way in fog and shoe pinch her favourite songs we knew all the words I sang them on my own but didn't own up upstart start up build up drink up west again friday night capital card to tottenham court staircase looks like it's been under water if we had a shopping trolley we'd get her home quicker then bash something metal on every lamp post as I got into my road and vow to only ever work somewhere on foot you're right it's the same suitcase wheels and duffle bag all those new towns look temporary boxes of cubic metres and multi picture houses we'd get in cars often hired to visit roundabouts she goes into town to get out again spokes of a wheel steering was my main problem shame lockers are in the past some things you just don't want to carry around information update construction some with lights showing off how high they are if you lived here you'd be home by now yes I would is the door locked you got your key I've forgotten my book so I have to think about where I'm going and the rocker who looks fearless and sat in first class she wonders what it's like to walk through those fields rather than stand and hang on to a chair back when tracks collide and wheels conflict hitch hiker as one foot creeps towards the other I'll take up no more space than I have to
Friday, 12 July 2013
Kings Cross
If you are in doubt
café pop radio
is the same in the sun
I am distracted
and over brew
our car's been stolen
a kid shouts
advance warning
major works
delays expected
do you want something
quick
electrostar
arrival on time
she changes the music
and lets them drop
wonder what they done
between girls
before phones
on the big screen
horses on the final furlong
platform bedroom
shoes
open back
spiral
metal
staircase
gets busy when there's
sport
leopard squeeze of pink
from another world
a police car wails
five feet from
the fire door
thank-you for your
co-operation
covers herself
a stripper and a man
high five
and always carry
water when you travel
Monday, 1 July 2013
Map Seventy One
White morning
line frenzy wait
one has to be right
slowly
while I look up
time the meaning
delay
no, it's alright I'm
just I couldn't hear you
the connection was mud
and the air
fast line
the air had corners
delay
that was breathing mine
I wasn't
time had stuck doors
splintered
thought you weren't there
and you
can I trust embery sky
one sky cut line
could be the way out
stretch so I fall
wavy through
wrought iron railings
and mossy jags
pretending Berlin
on the hour unpredictable
solitary heart down first
crocodile spray on hide
cellophane siren
and gouged out sea view
of a bomb site idol
doing spider
and sword words
with arum lilies
every sword of his melted
in tyranny design
every tone of violet
bruise a mattress landing
I didn't ask for colours
if I could only
sleep till winter
and write everything down
make up a name
any page for you
you can have a murder invite
or invent a missing person
any leafy number
of frost burn and sun bite
from dreaming Gemini gardens
a misunderstanding
we're lost
I allowed an impostor
when I opened to say
now he's at the window
telling me what to think
so nothing is fixed
delay
yes, but not in this order