I press myself into your chest
close my eyes and dance
Nina Simone sings
my arms wrap tighter
entwined
we move as one
slowly
deliberately
unaware of who
or where we are
in these tentative
fleeting moments
we feel free…

Apr 13 2022
Apr 3 2022
what doesn't kill you
makes you stronger
it doesn't
layers
relentlessly
painfully
stripped
eroded
one
by
one
is that you
I can't see you
are you in there
your smile
your laugh
your voice
monotone
without colour
I
miss
you
Mar 26 2022
waiting to hear
waiting to know
waiting in fear
waiting in hope
waiting for sleep
waiting for dawn
waiting to stop
waiting to start
waiting in line
waiting in time
waiting for you
waiting for life
Oct 30 2021
I miss the silence
occasionally deafening
I miss the comeraderie
when we clapped and held a light
I miss the frequent family chats
via zoom and what's app
I miss you telling me
stay safe wear a mask
I miss…
Oct 20 2021
tens
hundreds
thousands
unnoticed they die
their number up
but never called
demographic unknown
daily updates forgotten
next slide please forgotten
wash your hands forgotten
wear a mask forgotten
keep your distance forgotten
warnings
disregarded
unheeded
tens
hundreds
thousands
unnoticed…
Apr 19 2021
For decades football has been about money, fans' feelings flung to the sidelines, homes of football renamed, removed, demolished, emblems redesigned, colours sullied, players graded by statistics, assists, completed passes, goals (the only stat that actually matters), game times changed…
Read moreDec 15 2020
Scanning
anxiously
around each
every corner
adrenaline rushes
the aisles Pac-Man runs
you try to evade
but they appear
unnerved
bandits without masks
tiptoeing across your path
grabbing that which you
physically-distanced
are looking for
outlaws of compassion
standing
delivering …
Dec 4 2020
now we have
a different kind of love
a love that's taking
the long road home
you tell your stories
stitched together
in a broken memory of truth
we listen like we've never
heard the story before
do our best…
Dec 4 2020
Found you dressed this morning,
sitting on the edge
of your home hospital bed
in your polka dot swimsuit.
You thought you were on holiday,
but couldn't understand why
the pictures on your wall
were the very same as the…
Dec 3 2020
chatting about your ashes
you laugh
engaged interested
surprised
a diamond ring
necklace
bracelet
earings
turning a diamond
into a diamond
ideas flow
from the blooming obvious
burying you under a rose bush
to downright dangerous
scattered
out of the…
Nov 7 2020
sitting on the living room floor
in the same position we'd have sat
if the sofa had been there
we took up our usual places
you up one end
me the other
the room is totally empty
except for us …