Mosaic me all the places I have been and everything I have seen all of the kisses especially the ones I chose to forget every surprise success even when no one else saw me each mouthful of cheese the body blows and narrow escapes every song I met and made my friend when I got […]
Caged by a metaphor – 100 words
Caged by a metaphor Hard-baked stone formed by an eruption of fire and fury and petrified by terror A moat of stinking slime patrolled by armoured reptiles with teeth like broken bar-brawl bottles Dense thorn-sharp tangles woven tight protecting soft, pale tenderness as it sleeps its life away A carapace of […]
Skins – 100 words
Skins I wore a wetsuit into the lake sun glinted, elbowing through youthful foliage, neoprene absorbed the blows of water’s rising assault I was braced, mustered: leaving fear on the shore with my dry robe and car keys where it watched me rising proud from wind-fractured water I sought that tidal inhalation, […]
