Ash clouds make their way inside Flash heat burns my eyes You fade away, but heat stays Turns my face to dust Turns my brain to glass When Minerva’s owl fails to arrive

It was a problem of semiotics really Couldn’t read the sign But the instrument sung like cicadas in summer As dusty fireflies touched my skin It was like the expeditions to the pyramids Where the curse of the king punishes us Because we shouldn’t have been there After the last atomic priest has died

As your eyes widen It’s nature and nurture Coddled and encapsulated Do you remember when this is how The future used to sound Your eyes or maybe my shoes Lift me up off the ground But I’ll be okay Once I come down I feel I’ve caught a Millennium bug Out of a parcan A […]

There’s now too much I need to learn Too many islands left And shores to link Fire together Wire together Eyes dilated Thoughts disabled Senses drawn Assembled on the Last train home

You ain’t got a split dioptre To place two things into focus When you’re making Synthetic mirror life On the other side of silvered glass Left-handed version Of the right hand path You ain’t got a split dioptre

This idea inside you It is viral Anti-vital It slowly suffocates you Like a python Well, what’s next Mademoiselle X? It’s a part of you Your own supply You say no need to spare Food for thought or body A little red bag Your yellow raincoat Pockets full of heavy grey slag It is your […]

I tried hard To dress like I won’t steal My tips worn at diagonal My socks thinned I’m not a thief I’m not a thief I belong here My pockets have holes I’m not wholly here Mouth noises Blobs, gestalts Oh, you can help? There’s no time Mouth noises I just stare Garblified

I got home and removed my claws In the waiting room are different laws Of what you can carry And what you can do When the distance is altered This place will fit two Because you should feel safe And you should feel larger Let me lay down first None of that ol’ “How’s your […]