Humour
pi quarters
infinite trail of s.team…
from the missing piece
the hoops I jump through
to avoid exercise…
grammar’s a liar
she lies in bed comma-toes
what big teeth she has!
but for a teddy bare
Miscellaneous
crush –
the hammer of limerence
leaves all hearts misshapen
checks and balances…
legislative tyranny
haunted de toqueville
we’ll toast
our future scotched
on the rocks
this ill-tempered world
will bicker to its end
prelude to a fugue
peace of mind
mulling over
grey matter
susurrus…
scarecrow waiting
for a partner
all night long
dancing bear
about the pole
where serpents once ruled
I tell stories of ancients
my daughter wants more
rings liberated
from many a poor bride’s hand
magnetic saturn
one kiss, sweet lethe
and an eternity of longing
would be forgot
shooting stars…
constitution of a cult
meeting at the kirk
Water
sun-baked british child
in a castle out at sea
mail from africa
measle-sick and blue eyes wide
water water water . . .
whispering leaves
a fortune untold
tea time
each full and fragrant cup
radical
where is your compass
and the chart your fair hand marked?
I am lost at sea
Odysseus
was well-skilled in the lyre
a stringer of bows
he lied in bed with Circe
his wife lied with Nobody
neptune’s trident claw
wrathful bright ephemera
in charybdis wrought
jason these white horses rode
his ill fate galloping near
waveless treachery!
a cool calm exterior
turbulence conceals
endless and unquenchable
rage against the mortal mind
Vampires and Lilith
vampire’s embrace…
the generation of heat
by cold flesh on hot
creatures of the night
drinking coffee from the vein
at twelve twenty three
foolish adam
reviling the serpent
he gave her wings
lilith forgive me
I dared to seek salvation
in another’s lips
how the forest burns
wherever you have touched it
would you drown in me?
keep thy apple, sir
its lush flesh an innocence
I have never known
Francis James Franklin (Alina Meridon) 