Category Archives: poetry

I need hugs. Contact; reassuring, physical. You, all around me. One has never been enough. I’m incomplete without you.

new breath, black eyes, tiny life,      (       best friend one step       removed by wife two steps       removed by son infinitely       separated by a gulf I cannot cross alone) a beautiful thing, now peaceful. Both of us unable to survive      without … Continue reading →

failure is like    a flavour    of ice cream it’s always just intense enough      so you can taste it         even as it numbs

Sometimes the diff’rence between round-trip and one-way is the strength to stay …

and then what? suddenly simple?    everything works out? that … seems unlikely.            seems untrue. but maybe “friends”   or maybe nothing                ever                again only one has ever                disappeared completely                gone; can she too              ? I wish someone would    tell me    what it … Continue reading →