Ecuador

The village was only accessible by a long, dirt road. Breathing the mug in from the air was lightly relieved by the open back truck we trundled in for several miles, but dust blew up in clouds around the back wheels, hazing over our last horizon until the track grew thinner: steadily consumed by vegetation …

Capturing a Moment

  The sky burst like a spring bloom over the inky darkness of the impending autumn. From this distance, the flashes didn’t quite stain the backs of your eyes, and the crackles and clashes of gunpowder hesitated a moment longer before reaching out across the water. The smell of burnt air far above our concave …

Sedative

The solution is simple If we erase all evidence of devastation It was never there If we permit ourselves unconsciousness through inconvenience The steps are fewer The consequences quieter If we exhaust ourselves of all the fucks we have to give Throw them far from those miserable enough to ask for help Choose paperwork over …

Softness

On bitten tongues And calloused fingers Bloody sheets that muffle whimpers Released into the night In light of overhearing tactless echoes of profanity Yours is my insanity I hang on tight And lose sense of what's left below my skin when you're not there I let you in to bleed a little closer Battered Bruised …

Origami

This page dissatisfies me The rote horizons of my notebook empty Words I'd spent all night whispering to myself left quietly And now it shows I tear it from the spine My pens roll   The bottom edge comes away I hush the fold between thumb nail and the crook of my index finger Imperfectly …

/Trigger Warning ⚠/ Bleach

He liked the way it tingled. The dim light of evening trailing through the bathroom window did little to emphasise the impending sores, but he traced them out as darker smudges against the slight luminous quality of his translucent skin. It wasn't what he'd hoped for, but the old knots on the inside of his …

Free Verse

I saw white behind my eyelids Like tv static: The silence that slips through And mellows the ache Just one more breath.. One more Lost in solvent tongues We whisper our goodnight Pray “oh god” To a sky uninterested Leaning from the balcony The tail lights flicker to tomorrow While we rehearse The fruitless art …

Rain.

We were barely out the door When the click of heels was smothered By the thunderous applause Vapour burst from blue And swept to little rivers Making ankle floods and sodden toes Through boots and every bit of clothing owned We whooped like wild dogs Chorping at the sky that scattered under foot And pooled …

… the world as it will be – Isaac Asimov

People often talk about change like its a noun A specific moment at which a decision is made Forgetting the quiver around its discovery Haze where thoughts have been knocked out of their old places and into new With aftershocks reaching to both ends of the timeline Fingers interlaced with inconsequentials and substantials and possibles …

Airports and Planes: Annoying Delays

I feel like I've spent more time flying in the past 9 months than I have in the last 5 years. As I've grown older the world has shrunk.. Or at least it seems more in reach now that my passport takes residence on my own desk. I find it amazing that in an hour …