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Drunk

In alcohol we are free all of the time,
We are lost - floating true to ourselves.
(Her hair points towards nothing!)
And that’s what we become – nothing!
In the golden bottle, soft breathing turning,
Empty Deaths Head Nebula shimmers.
We are so very lost in our brains
So pure and simple –
We cannot be human like you
Far too weak
But the one thing that elevates us above all others,
At this time of night,
Is our truth –
We are seeped in love,
It is our plague,
We are diseased with love
It impregnates our being
We live for our love
Even though we are weak
We are so in love.
We are so drunk.

Siren Whispers

You are all black and white with a hint of red
If you are the moon, then I must be the sun.
Your eyes are brown but you cover them in bed
You are my Mother, my lover and friend all in one
I fall in your shoulder to dream in your arms
My confusion, my doubts and my restless heart
The song of your breath, the elixir that calms
The warmth of your body even when we’re apart
You will forever haunt my waking hours
As well as my sojourns into nightly soft sleep
My siren whispers amongst the blackest flowers
I kiss you there in my unconscious deep
To wake in the sunlight and find you still there
How could you doubt that I ever could care?

Venice

Pink powder walls are worn dry
As rotting wedding cakes hover
Over dwarf bridges
In pale tangerine labyrinths
The silver afternoon sun
Makes dancing stars
In water clouded milky
Here the golden lion has wings
Tourists flock as flags will flutter
Tongues can mesh
In rainbow drone
Shops of carnival masks
Stare through hollow eyes
Gondoliers’ whistles
Reverberate from shaded arches
Who punt dreamily slow
Will respect and history
In black lacquered coffins
That transport the living
Nowhere gently.

Waters dark and cold

I swam in waters dark and cold
I kissed all fish and touched them blind
I did not do as I was told
I did not care, I did not mind
That blackest deep was full of faces
My secret place the ocean bed
I hid the truth in unknown places
I floated on a sea of dread
Please forgive me, o’ my loved one
For I recognise that hurtful sound
I give my Moon, I take your Sun
Until I lie far in the ground
These hands that deceive, offer protection
These eyes that lie, the light of truth
This mouth that spoke of new directions
The lips that hide a rotting tooth
For I have swam in dirty water
Yes, I have moved amongst false fish
We shall not face the final slaughter
We shall not do as they would wish
The blackest night will be our saviour
The brightest day our dearest friend
Through our strength and wise behaviour
The end of life our only end

Shiny Arms

Electromagnetic radiation
Blossoms in burnt shadow
Bringing Balance
To a ripped psyche
Sparks from Mothers
Childhood black boots
Bear witness
To the shiny arms
Of tomorrow's angel
Drinking camomile
The colour of urine
A thread thin crack
Of magnesium light
Slowly moves upstairs
To tough the lips
Of a self portrait
Framed by pink daffodils
The blossoms of dysmorphia
The emblems
Of stunted metamorphosis
An icon of paradox
For me.

Birth In Reverse

I am a negative impulse
I am dark
I swallow you whole
From inside
In me breathing
Into my body
You go deadly
You take it
Black steel
Burnt grass
Into mind
Into soul
Silence deepens
Under pain
Filling me up
With flesh
Back into the Mother
Back into the warmth
Back into the liquid
The safety
The suffocating sky
The dream is ebbing
Vibrating
Stars.

Rose

Blue halos kiss the steel sad Moon
A smile is her drunken disease
My sister dressed in lights
Turns the ground black on Sundays
Far and wide, her road is a solitary one
Watch her collecting the desperate
In pockets lined with sandpaper
Coating skulls with pink blossom affection
Forgiving then all as they fade
Shadows of birds in those eyes
Stealing the fresh eggs
Of wives unknown
A mouth as dark as tunnel tears
Stretch across years
And skin made of Arctic snow
Speaks of joyous heartbreak
This will remain her private pain
To take the naïve, then break them
Sensually with her insipid rose revenge.

Somewhere Cold

Searching for new poisons
These bloodshot green eyes
Dart from one hand to the other
Snakes in my red palm
Bruised smiles lie at her feet
Breathing the dust of decay
Alien music far away
Somewhere else
Somewhere cold.

Raincloud

Dark and ominous
Raincloud floating in the sky
Eating Birds and passing Aeroplanes
So slow and silent
Hazy changeling with silver soul
Sinking in the breeze
Spitting down dreams onto sleepy heads
With belly full of electric light
And vipers tongue concealed
This shadow corpse
Is sailing by
For darting cracks of blue light
To emanate from its black mouth
Monster of the air
Growing stronger with each breath
Its drifting swirling dust
Eclipsing a heart of fire
Moving across the green home valley
Into the garden to cover the sun
To spoil the day for everyone.