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I've been working hard behind the scenes to pull together this Book Trailer for my newly published poetry collection "Fear Country" - available to buy right now by clicking this link her...
It is the last week of February 2019. A year ago I handed in my notice to my old job and now, here I am, a fortnight after publishing my first ever collection of poetry. Whaaaaat??? I kn...
It's not that you've forgotten how to feel,
It's just that scar tissue goes numb after so many years.
If you focus, you can still see the afterglow of all the hands that let go
Or held on...
I'm filling up my home with yellow.
I'm filling my lungs with burnished well-worn hellos
Instead of the long drawn out shadow-and-dust goodbyes,
I'm drawing down the sun one golden sunset...
You have been the best of me,
You are the whetstone
Smoothing each ragged breath
Caught in my sandstorm chest.
You leave candles burning
In all your windows
So I can always find you
...
My heart is a comet,
A chaos of battered ice trailing
Bright tails across my bruised skies,
All contradiction and complication and old pains
Hurtling a billion miles an hour around the ...