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to the perfect week.

Yesterday we found out that 1/3rd of my team are to be made redundant, following the announcement of significant job cuts at the company I work for. I find myself in the fortunate position of safety but it's still harsh seeing those people around me who face losing their jobs. I can't help feeling that I've, somehow, let them down.

Arrived at the train station to come home only to find that some scallies had stolen the valve caps on my bike and ...

and what if the sun takes 

itself out of the equation 


refusing the pull between 

east and west - day and night


rebound and fatigue
or the ocean gags

during the awkward pauses 


and the what ifs while we 

debate (whether this is a mistake) 

ourselves to death and 



the cabernet on my teeth 

confirms I’m less than 

you’d hoped for

Every Day At The Beach

for two hundred years she has
walked toward me

rack of Taino bones in a Maroon pot
Creole fusion with moonless skin
trailing a clubbed foot through
hot sand
poised heart
branded in a pale blue uniform -
a number inked across the breast

I hardly notice the inverted
wrist and paralyzed

...

Stays With You


Firefly - when you pulse among the stumps of trees
sacrificed for cane, shacks and cooking fuel,
shine down the throat of starvation, illuminate the
mosquito crops of a rain soaked soil.

Chronicle the transparent children dying
in urinal city gutters. Their memories of
food, medicine, a home flowing in the
sluice

...

Dear my hot Japanese ex-classmate,

I lost your number.
I'd be a sheep with bleeters on
because you blur my edges,
and so I had to pull out all the live feeds
and trim the switches.

I never called.
I won't be a howling wolf then, prowling dark places,
since within the flitter-flash, your gaze,
my mind would lose its hinges.



I never called your number, lost it.
There were many too ...