Monday 10 December 2012

Creationism

Suddenly
we weren't.
Not that we ceased to be -
Inherently existing, being
nothing in particular, just becoming
the negative;
the inverse;
the pure.

Impacts; spinning
the earth beneath our feet
as we together cease
to be.

Every instant, we
both are and are not -
returning to existence with
pounding of five-feathered
wings on pavement.
Large hands slow and
small hands stop
as we divide ourselves between
the rubber sole of the being
and the soundless void of the not.

Suddenly.
I.

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Souvenirs D'été

She's my summer girl, with
pools of green gently pushing at
blue, pulling me into their depths.
Lips so gentle and sweet,
with kisses from the north 
warming my cheek
and making me hold to the day.


Fingers and hands, smooth but brittle -
Shyly intertwining with mine as I build
these futile homes for us;
from her flesh come the walls;
my hands are simply a vessel for her being.
They won't last the night, these homes.
Her mood swings see to that.
Foreseeable unpredictability
trade my labours for a clean slate.


Morning will come again, back to the start.
She won't remember me - she'll be her own.
Every evening, I'll hold her close
But she'll never last the night.