PenguinAttack

A Study in Shades Collecting raw data; shells on the beach, smooth white grains lying smooshed together I remember how many times it took to bring you back when your ...

While I wait, I keep in mind all the things I'd rather do; soft sheets slinking about my ankles as I read in bed, mug warming my hand red as ...

I write the same poem over and over (and over) in a notebook so old the lines blur under the oil of my wrist as the ink sets in.

Aggrieved, Aley allowed alterable alliteration again.

I learnt then to weep hand to mouth throat convulsing as though the sobs stuck partway down (chicken soup for nothing) Here we came together from so slowly apart that ...

I watch the quake of waves slither out and back I should like to know how many colours the sea makes as the sun sets. How the sand sticks between ...

Zig Zinc animals line the walls, Zebras braying against the hot sunlight, Zealots clamour for their skins and Zoology never looked so good. Zag

I made worlds to suit the cards I'd been dealt as though a bad hand could be reversed if I tilted my head so. The clank of your metal striding ...

Taste the drying ash settled on your tongue, again reincarnation.

How oppressive you've become! My sister shoves her fingers further up the door jamb and unsticks the singlet from her spine. I've walked for so long today When my brother ...

I roll words by my mouth, tongue cleaving my cheeks to construct this - sound we open the lips, parse, close again. I am alive in this language.

The mouth of the earth; forever speaking to me in so many tongues.

Because Y is a crooked letter and you cannot make it straight explain who we are when not yet 25 when we will grow larger than the boots we wear ...

Summer hearts burning under the fine blue lines of harbour skies. I wait I wait I wait for when you remember we don't belong together.

I made the mistake made so many times before of returning - again again - to this house, your home, my quiet sanctuary. Left there to devices unknown - yours ...