The air was warm and there was something intoxicating, whispering, calling us into the night. We were tugged, barefoot and dancing, to the shore. Golden light and golden horns pulled us in, sandy-footed, wide-eyed, waiting. All the ferociousness of lightning somehow gentle. Is this the essence of a woman? A personal light show? The earth […]
You asked me if I saw you there at the altar. The truth is that I did. I never once lied about that. But in my picture you’re the one standing between us, smile beaming, about to join our matrimony. The one standing across from me has and always will be her. Ground Zero. Did […]
And really it’s my imagination that gets me in to trouble; these rampant projections of what life could be: Sunday morning jazz, and reading, and coffee in bed, and fingertips drumming on my skin. But really it’s more along the lines of: Isolation, and dirty laundry on the floor, and needing to vacuum every fucking […]
Sometimes I feel like my insides are made of the millisecond before bubbles burst. But if we live in own bubble, I’m okay with it, especially if the boundaries are your fingertips and the pillars of your lips and your warm breath on my neck. […]
No strings just warm breath and your skin against mine. No strings but guitar strings and maybe a glass of wine. Well, there’s plenty of time on the telephone line but that’s not what I need tonight […]
You told me at the beginning there were things about your life that you thought sure to scare me off. You told me then in what you thought was a warning, a caution for me not to get involved, or to explain your faults. You didn’t realise they were what made you perfect. You told […]
My anxiety gets progressively worse and you become progressively ignorant of it. Where once the occasional crying episode – balled up on the smooth wooden floorboards of Elgin St – called for undivided attention and patience; now night after night of crying myself to sleep receives only silence. I find myself thinking that had this […]
It’s raining. You know the day.It’s raining and it’s dark and it’s maybe 5pm but it feelsmuch later. But it’s felt that way all day. The sun hasn’t moved through the sky, the same grim darkness has been bathing your mind for hours. So,the time,it seems,doesn’t matter. You hear that horse neighing like your heart […]
Should I just cut out this piece? I don’t think it’s necessary, I could live without it, you know, like an appendix, or a spleen. I’m happy to chisel these bones to fit but just because I have cotton candy for a spine don’t let that fool you into believing I’m spineless. […]
I am a great communicator. I say this to myself maybe seven hundred times a day. Every time an email pops up, or a text pings on my phone, or my phone rings, or I have a WhatsApp voice note I really, really, reeeeally need to listen to but the not-knowing of what it contains […]