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This disembodied self Was I always empty and waiting to be filled? With your milk cries and more cries and mam mama won’t shut your eyes cries A blunt heel taunts the inside of my ribcage And you never stop your pink finger prodding, pinching, punishing A scream has aged long in the basement ofContinue reading “Surrender”

Skeleton trees hang earnest above And roos hop over the grassy lake, Magpies stop to pay their respects As I lie in my Mitsubishi escape. The bush mice waltz to Matilda’s tune As sun sets over the billy’s boil, But hearts and hands have lost their way To the pregnant fields where I once toiled.Continue reading “Rainbow Dreams and Golden Soil”

I dwell in the place where it’s never quite dark and the stars hide from industrial gaze. I’m trying to move away but your ghost keeps reeling me back in; that time you got the fish-hook stuck in your finger. I thought that, as long as I’d listened to enough Phil Elverum, I’d be readyContinue reading “Mama”

My mother and I shared a kiss only once. It was the cold middle of my eighteenth year and I was in love. I had spent a week sleepless, my clammy fingers clutching the edge of my green floral quilt as my heart raced and I counted down the hours until I could see himContinue reading “Incest”

Did I breathe you in? The salt spray of your bones, The gust that blew you over the frosted caps.   You fell from my hands: Grey, eggshell and sediment, And I felt the absence of you in that fierce opening between my collarbones.   I fell into the bitter blue And tried to feelContinue reading “Mother of my Mother”

She took me down to St. Stephen’s Green and we walked beneath the limes. Her apricot hair gained a certain Venus-like quality in the early-Autumn gale, and I wondered what it would be like to be born inside a scallop. I guess my mind was trailing off to any odd place at the time, tryingContinue reading “Saint Stephen’s Green”