All posts tagged personal platform
A Corpse’s Shadow
The body was in the boot, but its smell had crept through the car and sat down on the passenger’s seat. Frank thought it must have been a day old […]
Hole-Heart Boy
into a library of toxins enter the hole-heart boy on a guanine dice-roll or a meiotic card-shuffle or god’s fingers poking a womb “don’t we have it lucky?” […]
With Child
In an aisle at the supermarket’s centre was a shelf of too-large-to-be-true Perspex boxes. In every box was another box: a little white one, and in every little white box […]
Last Week
Centimetre by centimetre You opened up a hole in me At the start I barely noticed Until I Was standing at the airport gate Too early leaving you behind And […]
The Red Horse: Part One
Old Mama was a bay mare standing at fifteen-two hands. She was also the best horse that Pearson Michaels had ever gotten. Given to him by an uncle on his […]
Brotherhood
You snuffed out your cigarette With a cruel stamp Of your twisted foot. The ash spilled out, Out into silence Where air and sweat Mingled with the dying light. […]
Lamia
Unravelling herself from the Gordian Knot that is sleep, Lamia, who has eyes like a peacock, stared nervously at her reflection in the adjacent mirror. Her vermillion-spotted body felt endless […]
An Ultraviolet Waltz
She died on the roof where it was sunny, honey, From the backlash of the heatstroke in the crossfire While Wilson ached about tender women and liars It’s said […]
Pink and Blue
She had been letting the sun in through the window since February. In April, she heard the song that they would later refer to as ‘our summer song’. In June, […]