It’s spacious (for the money), with a kind of kooky panopticon vibe: it’s all about unlimited broadband access to other people’s rooms, all about slatted blinds, mine and theirs. And who’s that girl, running around in the drenched party frock? She was there last night too, on the steps to the building where I used to live. Can’t tell if she’s laughing or sobbing. And I hear the sound of the underground train, sounds like sounds like sounds like any other, really. And another car pulls into the shadows and I wonder if he’s still in his old place, […]
Genesis
God was wrong—pink
is the colour of summer.
The shout of this flower,
its lashes batting down
on us beneath the meat
of this tree, my tongue
flummoxed by this fluster of
fruit. The bark you bit off,
the colour of beaten flesh.
A Light to Lighten
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sitting with the sting of exile @ Kotoka
for the trip back dad kept
himself held in the silence that settled
on all of us, thickly. the ache
& sacrifice for a life worth living
brought suffering at the
window of Ekua’s complexities.
The Diet Coke Side of the Moon
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(no melody that isn’t shared between instruments)
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The Discovery of Antinous, 1894
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Journal in May
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on breaking, & being broken
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Remote Intersections
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In lockdown, remembering a ruined abbey
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Late
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