Above the city

A terracotta ocean

Washed clean by new rains

Cold April showers

Relentless in their fury

But over so fast 

Sun slowly falling

Painting the sky with its blood

Hearts gently breaking 

A tangled up web

Lost and confused in this mess

I am on my own

Perfect evening sun

Warming and filling me up

I am anywhere

While these bridges burn

Hunting for an escape route

A haunted staircase 

A misty morning

Another day I missed you

Hidden mystery 

A new horizon

Flat like life support machines

A lethal sunset 

Feeling pulled apart

Stretch me out upon the rack

Joints pop out of place 

Bark without a dog

Trunk without an elephant

Limbs without a leg

Under the wood stack

In a dry little hollow

New whiskers twitching

Mediocrity

The curse of global culture

Shackled to our screens

Out of the darkness

Falling onto golden straw

A new life begins

A crumbling cliff

Devoured by the ocean

Hanging on the edge

Cowering inside

Hiding behind these these lost eyes

My only safe place

Between the rafters

Inside the empty spaces

Resting in our nest

Freshly washed mudflats

Glisten with sea borne treasures

A void mermaid’s purse 

Now night has fallen

I just want to go back there

To where the wild pear grows

Bluster battles blow

Between bruises black and blue

Brow beaten beneath



Man made mountains soar

Their builders overshadowed

A tower topples

Walking through raindrops

Dripping from my nose and eye

Lashes cross my back

Worthless words shrivel

Like last year’s discarded leaves

Must I always fall

Between these four walls

I can travel anywhere

We are on the line

Marching on like ants

Our nests forever building

Just another cog