[19 June 2019] Submitting itself to the idea that time Builds a barricade against itself, a monument to itself Written large against the five concrete walls that have long since crumbled away, Wreathed in smoke and fireflies and plum blossoms Giving way to an almost that can be eternally grasped In the spaces in-between your…

[18 June 2019] You held my hand that quayside night, the evening sky splayed out before us – scatter-shot like fires of Hebrides enthroned upon an umbral spire. do you think, said I, a time will come when you and I may find ourselves apart? your hand, it trembled for a moment, and in that…

[17 June 2019] and yet the past comes hurdling back at the speed of longing and the cost of desire,sloshing about in our empty stomachs and empty beer bottles – mingled with sweat and memory and saliva and other bodily fluids – transcending temporality and suspending solitude until nothing remains but a shallow pallor set…

[13 June 2019] The note of self-same strings struck, Plucked, and tell something just beyond the tune Of autonomous knowing and self-knowing; fires (The tone is richer for it);A story, a longing, just beyond reach, Over the bridge and beyond the water Bearer, beyond the reach of the scales of justice Or the serpent or…

[12 June 2019] 吳竹のうきふししけき世中にあらしとそ思ふ暫しはかりも There’s something magnetic charismatic even poetic about the way you wrote your own eulogy (rhapsodies and melodies of a forgotten time kept alive by sheer repetition) くれ竹のよゝのふる事おもほゆる昔かたりは我のみそせん so I carved your name into the asphalt by the corner store on October the twenty third at eight-o-clock in the morning 梅は早咲にけりとておれはちる花とそ雪のふるは見えける and…

[10 June 2019] They all were summoned to the party – a rather gay affair – while most of them attended, not everybody came.

[7 June 2019] A human, a man Ostensibly Standing Perched between two sets of railway ties Hovering without touching the ground Your suspended sentience mimics The muddled clarity of the lines of a Malfatti Or a Hepworth Signifying Something ethereal Wholly new and timeless And weighty A boy Pushing into something far more significant Than…