Yesterday I believed ‘inherent’ was a foundation, one made of something tauter than all the bridges on this river. . […] Poems …yesterday
I looked out at Brighton from the back window of my neighbour’s fourth floor flat. There was fog. The sky […] Poems …there should be no ‘I’ in live
The heat arrived and a weight left me I parked up my ideas covered them in words all kinds of […] Poems …broken van highways
Needed to be alone to feel like I’m still me and then I found you I’m no longer alone once […] Poems …zoo tiger
Maybe I was wrong though I can’t see it yet tried not to force it didn’t think I was maybe […] Poems …meditation
Drifters and beggars money makers streets too ancient to be named fought over thousands of years thousands of times all […] Poems …change
Listening to John Frusciante really had to focus in order to spell his name correctly as he’s not recognised by […] Poems …tragedy
My fingers have been tapping insistently for ten years, maybe. I’m alert, noticing they’ve stopped. The wooden table surface is […] Poems …a subject to my subject
You can’t repeat an authentic moment though I try again and again. Poems …the recurring pains of authenticity
All the words are boring at least the ones in my head and there are only a few I’m angry […] Poems …all the words are boring
You told me not to run solo didn’t think I was I was holding […] Poems …me and my shadow make a great team
I’m irritable you’re irritating I’m hooked on being irritated. Our lines fuzz distort each other merge momentarily from time to […] Poems …merge
The films he watches define him and have been for years he realises one night while questioning himself in relation […] Poems …sculptors
You’re complicated I was ankle deep fell flat out but the water here is soft didn’t sting my eyes beneath […] Poems …ripples
She’s staring into space, it must be black, he thinks, black and full of swirly things, her questions. He wants […] Poems …fear
Wave riding hope I didn’t break you feels like it maybe I’m outrageous but I feel vacuous tonight like all […] Poems …wave riding
He knows it’s raining even before he hears it a feeling inside out nerves and bone touching cold sheets all […] Poems …hiding
Daylight dies it was never really here just greylight and fog and mist and I’m […] Poems …blowing away
The old 1998 internet dial tone plays on the Incubus track I’m listening to and I realise Incubus probably feel […] Poems …listening to Incubus at the bottom of the ocean
Flat out on the riverside by choice I’m sweating out the purge of the poison hoping for a cleansing I […] Poems …phantasm
Bouncing on the river side lungs heaving but no asthma just general inability to cope because usually I lie in […] Poems …this telescope is broken
Twisted up in a pillar of light and haze, should be a stream of air passable and laughable, […] Poems …twisted
‘Twenty-nine years old and you got no soul,’ is what I heard Mos Def say […] Poems …that time Mos Def tried to fool me
The instrumental piano music I’m listening to makes me want to kill myself. It’s 5AM and it’s dark and the […] Poems …the instrumental piano music I’m listening to makes …
I woke up and my back ached and I looked at my back in the mirror and there were large […] Poems …new friend
I can hear your wail, can you hear mine? It’s distant and patient and you are my distance patiently waiting, […] Poems …wail
I think, in a strange kind of way, I want a shark to bite, even eat me, sink those teeth […] Poems …eat me
I always thought I was well-rounded and acquiescent. My edges have been invisible […] Poems …good pain
‘Man, the wood feels and smells so good and especially the lemon oil, and I love how my fingers feel […] Poems …should have stayed home and played the guitar
She wanted a clean slate so she let herself get dirty. Sunlight hid her pale face and dark intensions, gave […] Poems …thirst
We know nothing so the world may as well be edged in waterfalls or made of glass and we surely […] Poems …We were once tiny things with lots of teeth and …
Cold and I’m walking towards infinity or what feels like infinity even though I am aware it is not. It […] Poems …a kind of odyssey
He thinks about what Robert De Niro and Jimi Hendrix have in common. ‘They are both cool,’ he says. What […] Poems …the snow leopard
Light is his game and colour is his object, abjection and absolution. Falsely it hangs whilst on other days he […] Poems …artist/artist
The girl within you has no eyes only slits filled with shadow. And as silence falls I listen, wonder whether […] Poems …the girl with no eyes
In utero and flying around away from all the sweat and heaving air of all these people, this life. Shambala […] Poems …in/out of utero
The wind tunnels through the room heavy and hot. Thoughts hazing my head, more powerful than exhaustion. No force to […] Poems …roaring
They will glide around the world and eventually all die, it’s only a matter of the eagles and what I […] Poems …eagles and I
Below are some colourful things with whimsical names that I made and enjoyed making and looking at, so I hope […] Art …playing with computers
I was eight years old when a kind of magic entered my life: call him greatness personified, wizardry, focus, deadly […] Poems …me and the mamba
The moon fizzed in the sky its shining spots clear through spidery cloud. Hand in hand we walked, fingers intertwined, […] Poems …delirium
Crystal clear it is, this feeling within, he says. There is a bounce to his step a glimmer in his […] Poems …chasing forms