Unfamiliar things it’s tough – walking dublinwith my wife now.every turn a memory;some other woman’s place.like the breaking of eggsopen badly at breakfastand watching the yellowas it fries into white. we get coffee one morning –I’ve had coffee before. I … Continue reading
Campfire walking at nightand the financial district fires,I guess because they leavethe lights onso the night-cleanerscan work. seen from a distanceit looks damn impressive,propped up against the velvetof some soft and studded skylike stacking racks of driftwoodgone ember on a … Continue reading
The swimming pool I aim a sprayof bleach. the bathroomsmells stronglyof swimming pools. expecting visitors,I touch my mask,and scrub the toiletspotless. an attendant,tired and earlymorning, longon a hotsummer’s day. One shouldn’t fit on a bus, and seeingthe mind inside eachof … Continue reading
you have to wonder at the flavour, and savour the smell, accept taste the bitterness of it; gooseberries and fresh appleflesh. you have to get sunlight pouring over windowsills and spilling into ditches onto drunks going home. that’s wine, see? … Continue reading
Resignation letter the office they gave meheld a viewof birds. how thenshould one focuson scheduling appointmentsand booking callswith contractors? flight stretchedlike a long armover mountainsand tangled tablecloth. Going back to London it looks like I’m goingto be going again –something … Continue reading
and so I spent my 20s trying to write just like him and somehow it got me my first real book-deal, from an editor in America with leanings toward fascism, and in hindsight I suppose I can see why. we’re … Continue reading
at the counter she still gets nervous whenever she has to count someone’s change. the door rings an electric bell and while each customer browses she hopes aloud that they’ll pay by card. it’s easier. and each morning she asks … Continue reading
Coltrane went crazy, playing these long 30 minute solos all on a long tour of America, on a stage behind Miles Davis. he spun it out in silver like a spider with a web, catching flies and sometimes juxtaposition. supposedly … Continue reading
settling in for a quick one: evening, and the sun is coming down with the birds flapping to roost, heads underwing and feet sunk into bellies like water in a sponge. and we are having drinks together, eating fried and … Continue reading