~ TIP TAPPING

Cool spring
On a silver stone

~ INTIMACY

A glissando
Of gossamer dreams
Gliding
Through internecine
Tenderness

~ VIOLATION

Against child abuse

Smears
Of Blood
At the end
Of the rainbow

~ THE RIGGER

Rigging
My life
With necessity
For others
Whilst
You stand
Alone.

~ PUPA

I laugh
At the chrysalis
Of hope
In my mind's
Eye

~ PERDIDO

Tantamount
To my wrath
Is
The kiss
I missed.

~ PARTING

On a train
the vagueness
of loss
fills my sorrow

~ ASCERTAIN

Grabbing
The niche of comfort,
Sympathy
Bares the nerves
And reveals
The true condition.

~ KICKING FAMINE *

Out of breath
in the breadth
of my hunger
for bread.

* African Hymn.

~ CALISTHENICS

Pushing
My hand
Onto the beam
In your eye
And chanting.

~ CONNECTING THE DOTS

Interconnectedness
Joining at
Conjunctures
With open
Palms
Slapping

~ PERISTALSIS

A thorn
In the backside
Feeling a lancination
In the depths of
The mesenteric
Rectum:
Peristalsis supreme.

~ FALSE

My love
Is lost
And I cry but for one
Sameness
In resolution of the
Passing wind

~ Pánta reî kai ouden meneî *

Panta rei
Flows away
Cannot say
Where

And more to come

---

* From Heraclitus:
...Those rivers one steps into are not the same. Other and yet other waters keep flowing on. Into the same rivers we step and yet we do not step, we exist and at the same time we do not exist... after all, one does not step into the same river twice. Waters disperse and come together again ... they keep flowing on and flowing away... in the end, there is only flux, everything gives way.
Everything is in flux and nothing abides,
Everything flows and nothing stays fixed,
Everything is constantly changing and nothing stays the same...

~ CAMPS

Concentrated screams
Made silent
By the putrid smoke
Of burning flesh
In the ovens
Of Gomorrah.

~ TEARING

Tears
Of blood
On my punctured
Face:
Singing
Love.

---

... a Holy Image? The face of a dying God?
You picture it...

~ DIERESIS

The glissando
Of my tongue
On your
Strawberry
Nipples.

~ MALAISE

Malaise
Is the melancholy
Of memories
Lost
In the heart
Of things.

~ TRAVELLER

A sentimental journey
In the shadow
Of my desperation.

~ ARILS

Spiced
With Pomegranate
Between
The larvae
Of my arillate
Genius.

~ COVET

Sanctimonious
White sepulchre
Of greed
Roars.