I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem. I mostly didn’t. Today’s entry is off-prompt; it was instead inspired by Stephen King’s April Fool’s Day tweet. It’s hard to believe that’s an old song now It never did get any respect The world has moved on and then some— but the Rick [...]
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem, but the NaPoWriMo early-bird prompts today all seem to want poems about (or somehow referring to) birds. So much for promises… Opening the curtains to greet the new day. Looking out at the world going by, at the sun and the clouds as they [...]
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a coronavirus poem. So much for promises… Some of us may never fall ill but we have been infected nonetheless The so-called ‘invisible enemy’ has infiltrated every waking moment of our now-restricted lives To get away is to hunker down respect the confines of our domestic prisons [...]
Inspired by the Moneterey Bay Aquarium’s Live Jelly Cam. Tendrils parachutes adrift in solution Cherry-blossom pink burnt amber and gold in deep blue sea Tangles billows filigree A forest of fabrics and shoelaces flowing across the canvas (23 March 2020) Wishes sometimes have consequences—available to order from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: [...]
Too much CNN lately. The undisputed king of realising too many things too late looks up from his computer to see the face of Dr Leana Wen on the screen of his TV She projects a calm, a serenity that has him contemplating the meaninglessness of time and the sudden end of unfinished sentences while [...]
For now… Anymore the days don’t flow into one another they’re wrenched from the top of the stack and thrown onto the slag heap Somebody wants to see how far they can go before the whole thing collapses while the gallery bets on ‘what if?’ But in an empty world, what can that even be? [...]
Image adapted from the CDC website. Every spark’s been thrown out so now nobody is listening The kids have gone out to play their parents are in hiding wondering whether to lock the doors behind them The threat of snow this weekend provokes no reaction What is the difference between caution and fear? (14 March [...]
Image adapted from the CDC website. Fade back into shadow it’s safer there The plague can’t reach through the curtains as long as the light can’t get in Hide now there’s danger in numbers Wait now it’s not safe to go out Freedom is overrated (13 March 2020) Wishes sometimes have consequences—available to [...]
This is why I prefer email. 1 I dialled my mother’s phone number last Friday I forget who I was calling but the area code was the same so my fingers did the walking I stopped myself before I hit the green button 2 I heard my father’s ringtone yesterday: ‘Hello, Dad? I’m in jail!’ [...]
Thoughts. Collisions. At the snap of a finger the scene changes A slap a clap an echo a microtonal shift in the frequency of indifference a crack in the moment of quietude Enter doubt followed by uncertainty conflicting expectations and a decline in the gross national product of Ecuador Time flaunts its elasticity— no time [...]
