2022-05-30 17:18
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
2022-05-30 08:58
My mind has always been Frankenstein’s lab bolts of lightning skeletal fingers of extreme energy reaching for mass to strike like missiles and exploding with extreme prejudice Guidance… Read More
2022-05-28 15:38
I was out of my gourd when I met her but- couldn’t resist the taste no such thing as forbidden fruit when duetting with a soul mate Seed is in the soul where it grows to full maturity… Read More
2022-05-28 08:02
A dreaming child adrift on waves watcher of skies connoisseur of rain The spirits listened took my hands promised that tomorrow would come again Here I float howitzer for brains depth of sha… Read More
2022-05-27 14:10
I know her as Dolly Angel a beautiful Slovakian girl raven hair with dark eyes like tunnels of love She is the only person who can drive a circle while waving both hands as she passes you by… Read More
2022-05-26 14:12
The old wallpaper has recieved a number of age related injuries like a punctured bicycle tyre in search of a repair kit- but I digress off the point I had a cat called Cleopatra who would st… Read More
2022-05-26 11:42
Life in a cloud world populated by crows riding the thermals and circling heaven Like floaters in an eye or icy fingers searching for hard frosty ground to kill a faint pulse Sound in this w… Read More
2022-05-25 08:03
In the moment you’re happy nothing else matters- and yet until the last day there will be so much I still won’t know sometimes troubling me Every tear of ignorance singes a burni… Read More
2022-05-24 14:59
I was on the metro and there was this guy listening to rap music on his headphones I thought absently why the need for phones when it was loud enough for the entire planet to hear? Anyway it… Read More
2022-05-23 12:11
My mother was once struck by lightning it turned her hair white- like a Jewish valkyrie I looked into her blue eyes to evaluate signs of life and the veins I saw stared back at me like Gothi… Read More
2022-05-22 15:16
God is the best enzyme technician on the planet-bar none Want anyone to deliver a baby- or a bomb of flowers His name is on the invite The heavenly garden is full of tortoise-shells red admi… Read More
2022-05-22 11:07
I breathe in deeply the smell of the flowers Nearby on an old oak table sit a posy of primroses of a delicate yellow the colour of the sun before gaining its strength Eternity was there befo… Read More
2022-05-21 11:20
I‘ve been lost and found so many times it seems, I’ve opened a new case file- or maybe not Splish splash, I say- because this life for anyone can be […] Read More
2022-05-20 10:07
She gave me the keys to the kingdom pulling a cracked mirror from a chainmail bag transforming it into a Angelo Barovier master work With whispered diasporan tales of the […] Read More
2022-05-20 08:32
The raven looked imperious Higher! Higher! Higher! It squawked at me looking down its beak a funnel of disdain The contempt was squeezed through a narrow tube as if exclaiming […] Read More
2022-05-19 13:29
Melt down the statues let the beasts within roar to make cannon to fight the armies of kings But when ‘good’ king Henri Quatre was smelted and destroyed he was […] Read More
2022-05-19 09:35
I gaze from the window onto the dark havens down where the beast rolls on catterpillar tracks hauling combustible materials to do great mischief And I flex my toes encased […] Read More
2022-05-18 16:39
Whom do I feel like today? but deviating from this thought I came quickly upon another Weeds are easy to cultivate strolling over the garden with a swaggering gait Never […] Read More
2022-05-17 14:38
I can’t prevent the beautiful cakes finding their way into my mouth whenever I open it to breathe a confectionary finds its way in I don’t know how it happens […] Read More
2022-05-16 10:14
Every day is an endless rebirth Melammu-shimmering radiance as the eternal fire disc rises like a big blonde on my arm a beautiful shiksa-no less And having deposited myself here […] Read More
2022-05-15 12:56
William Morris hung out on the walls as the weak sun light crept furtively forward across a parquet floor It was the kind of posh place where the attendants would […] Read More
2022-05-15 09:15
My art loving mother went for a jolly round her Parisian delights Perusing sublime and ridiculous Rachel espied creations of painters, posers and poodles Monet, Pisarro and Seurat showing th… Read More
2022-05-14 11:58
I sit at the lights scoping the angles for a rogue T72 to lurch and crank out of the Grunewald No fraternisation I’ll pop its turret like a Parisian Lorette […] Read More
2022-05-13 14:08
Trotsky opined No war, no peace I must be getting old because that’s the last chance saloon where the morally bankrupt sing A circle of jaundiced light that warms serpents […] Read More
2022-05-12 15:26
” She looked at us both in the mirror “Who are the owners of these vehicles?” she casually asked to no one in particular kissing my neck with 10% added […] Read More
2022-05-12 08:31
They crossed the border gutting mothers to be leaving them like meat blood drying in earth that ancient of days I had left before the butchery had begun aboard a […] Read More
2022-05-11 13:44
The new day looked like a traffic accident a cherry sans martini It promises everything but a great calorific abundance of faith I felt like sipping a whisky and putting […] Read More
2022-05-10 14:09
My lady assumed she would interest me which-of course-she did She knew me so well as I jumped the shark and hunted her down Our love is not a walking […] Read More
2022-05-07 17:44
She glided like a sleek cadillac down the Unter den Linden her smile as wide as the Brandenburg Gate and came onto me engine purring like a lady of the […] Read More
2022-05-07 10:49
There are moments like an endless loop of musical angst that try as they might never escape the notes The blossom lay heavily upon the grass torn from their glory […] Read More
2022-05-06 15:51
Spiritual reality is in the here and now the tangible the touchable There’s always a simple meaning where shit doesn’t get too complicated There is no endless punishment torment… Read More
2022-05-05 14:37
The sky split open like the cracking of bones of saints their broken teeth falling to earth in a hail of enamel I rouse myself and open the shutters upon […] Read More
2022-05-03 15:41
My mother Rachel looks at a picture of Savonarola “Not the kind of guy you want to meet down a dark alley” said rabbi Simon cheerfully She puts the picture […] Read More
2022-05-02 09:50
I start by remembering the day- that’s sometimes important Like standing before Monet is watching a movie unfold a symphony in my eyes like reflections on glass Other times the [&helli&hell…Read More
2022-05-01 15:34
All Russian babies are swaddled often times they hate being unwrapped the freedom brings sleepless tears having lost the comfort of restraints of an existence of mental bondage Its the [&hel&hell…Read More
2022-04-30 14:32
I’ve written more than once about the great pharaoh, Hatshepsut, mainly because of not just being my favourite figure from the ancient world, but also not only was Hatshepsut the [&hel&hell…Read More
2022-04-28 14:31
Clothes are what we are helping build a persona its our armour plating against a hostile world I`m feasting with panthers a dangerous carnivore glutton for red meat a valkyric […] Read More
2022-04-27 18:19
My lady’s blue eyes are the point of life a meaning for breath the reason for sight She turns sans-culottes into sublime aristo pearls with an elegant turn in Parisian […] Read More
2022-04-27 13:56
Nothing happens here except the weather moods of nightmares Two young girls before and after all the same watching the sun illuminate the day Lucid Freudian dreams flowers that loom [&hellip&hell…Read More
2022-04-26 13:30
Her mouth grips the mug like a magnetic mine the suction power would crack granite Its a Viking shield wall moving with menaces to crush its enemy with extreme prejudice […] Read More
2022-04-25 09:07
Man- I love my bombs Such killers- fuck concern That’s just another distraction I feed on death Call it collateral damage Every day I hear the reports cities destroyed mass […] Read More
2022-04-24 11:53
I gathered up the tides of memory and hurled them into the air as dew watching them descend upon the land where rose kingdoms of thoughtful power The spidery bat […] Read More
2022-04-23 10:27
Alone… in an alien world who would be frightened sad, unsure or relieved? The end of responsibility to all but one’s self Alone… Pictures of the departed steadily return… Read More
2022-04-22 15:35
Apart from life, I have relied upon my mother for what, and who I am. I love her greatly for so much, yet also for the gift of Asperger’s, and […] Read More
2022-04-22 09:52
I soar into the sky when I’m with her- she does that to me The ferocious heat of her golden flame is the best thing I have ever placed in […] Read More
2022-04-21 15:05
The English Restoration period of the later Stuarts saw the rise of the independent woman. I think this is at the very least, as important as the scientific discoveries of […] Read More
2022-04-21 10:31
Early in the morning the sleepy mind can be an ancient creaking slum Of peeling wallpaper warped floorboards a flattened out globe making everything too thin A dog eared paperback […] Read More
2022-04-20 15:46
Alexander Pope was born and died a Catholic, at a time when England was still in thrall to its anti-Catholic Reformation schtick. In Stuart and Hanovarian England, anything that lived, [&hel&hell…Read More
2022-04-20 12:28
What kind of summer will it be? Will the whisky still be warming stretch the cheeks beyond the zone bring water to sleepy eyes? I gazed into that bitch of […] Read More
2022-04-20 10:48
The strangest dream- thick in local particulars emergent paint seeping through slender dream like fissures in bright startling colours But there was I dressed in all black boots of Spanish [… Read More
2022-04-19 14:54
Lost time an expensive elegant apartment to expire within its walls The dim weight of crown of thorns that throw light upon time Its pale phizog peering from glass of […] Read More
2022-04-19 10:54
Words are like mishpachah those spatial temporal vortices allowing communication to occur and seemingly heaven sent Thoughts are atmospheric houses elegantly furnished by words that replenis… Read More
2022-04-18 14:51
I never knew you until I left An open field of primroses gently breathing and swaying in the sun Holding me on a flood tide I never heeded A living […] Read More
2022-04-18 12:24
Secrets of the city the mind that flows downstream to the eternal sea The countless dead washed in its wake share its thoughts its desires and hates the loves the […] Read More
2022-04-18 11:19
The poet Shelley met Mary among the graves of St Pancras Old Church sitting beside the stone of her great mother laying her flowers whilst she talked People cluster round […] Read More
2022-04-17 12:07
I live up a road where driving schools don’t bring their pupils to turn around A Sickertian backwater once inhabited by the mistresses of Victorian businessmen The female inhabitants w… Read More
2022-04-16 10:43
Shadows walk beside me dusty coats over bones chanting a Gothic script that memories reside here A tall thin presence stood on the stair like a stick insect white, wrinkled […] Read More
2022-04-15 15:04
I am here again with my mother Rachel at Passover with ease in her beautiful garden on her sweet land “Le Notre is here” I said to her “Orange trees […] Read More
2022-04-13 13:45
The spot on the floor a baleful shadow face full-on confrontation “You Want Some?” I had read the manuscript in yet another life a switchback from chess when you return […… Read More
2022-04-11 14:38
The alcohol provided me with all round power assisted independent suspension A world that appeared strange and off-kilter tucked its socks into its jackboots and goose-stepped off down the r… Read More
2022-04-10 14:30
I turned the light on and then decelerated as I hit a pothole and the light struck me The floor seemed like a cobbled courtyard at a drunken jaunty angle […] Read More
2022-04-09 14:35
My mother Rachel continues to love her art “Shabbat Shalom,” says Simon “Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Simon” we reply in quietness “Some more cake, Rabbi?” my mo… Read More
2022-04-08 11:28
I woke up and my brain creaked- not a well oiled door but a neglected bandsaw left on a bench and turned to rust Thoughts begin to form like shadows […] Read More
2022-04-08 09:34
The mortal remains of Brit prog rockers Pink Floyd, are releasing their first new studio recorded material since The Division Bell in 1994. It features Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian [&he&hell…Read More
2022-04-06 11:28
Whatever you wish I said quietly as she softly smiled My gathering thoughts were newly struck pennies and her languid eyes rose like perfume presenting up offerings to the pale […] Read More
2022-04-05 10:39
The purr of light the growl of dark if I could have I would write this another way But like the hours of day and night the soul of mood […] Read More
2022-04-04 14:39
The Goblin queen came to lunch swift and lean she sat quietly imbibing the scene of ice melting a frosted dream as Spring entered her twilight gleam sweeping the dust […] Read More
2022-04-03 10:36
Gazing into the mirror I see ghosted eyes glancing back at me Nothing here to see except I and I reflected on a pond pale in the light But pity […] Read More
2022-04-02 12:39
It was like a laugh that made the plates rattle as the cigarette was sucked into the gaping mouth with the force of a ballistic missile launch Where had she […] Read More
2022-03-31 16:52
Stroll amongst the tombstones enamelled dentin smiles bonjour comment vas-tu?? let me kiss your warm cheek Maison de vacances here Paris is wonderful-as always! views from La Grande Jatte al… Read More
2022-03-31 14:34
Every day it rains gold in my head I push the door wide open and stare into the future I am an open sanctuary for every tremor of fear tinctured […] Read More
2022-03-31 11:02
Jewish hair… Thank God I don’t have out of control Jewish hair Its a squawkbox raising the roof a pearly queen’s hat tied by twine An intractable turkey refusing to [&hell&hell…Read More
2022-03-30 10:52
I see her walk blowing out the sun sparks from boots and eyes like bullets from a gun The moist earthy odours rise where she walks upon her crimson altar […] Read More
2022-03-29 14:08
Silently lift the latch the door is unlocked swiftly the leaves rustle in the stiffening breeze Come, till my soil and plant ripening seed to welcome mother sun upon my […] Read More
2022-03-27 10:40
Our frail bodies become a time worn property with gruff rugged facades thought up by central casting a moustache twirling villain wielding a silver topped cane its tip tarnished by […… Read More
2022-03-26 15:57
Spirit of the corn guards my house her watchfull gaze shields the doors Neither bleared eye nor darkened heart shall enter here with their ugliness… (c) Marlovian 2022 Read More
2022-03-25 15:58
Goblin dark walk in shadows liminal spectre eater of hearts love frets him like sugar and light Malformed squat its dreams are nightmares live pulse Put in death King hermit […] Read More
2022-03-25 13:44
It suddenly dawned upon me, that Putin resembles Shakespeare’s Richard III to absolute perfection. No murderous villainy and inhumanity is beyond them both. Everyone, and everything is… Read More
2022-03-22 15:21
My mother Rachel still loves her art even the Christian God of the divine Michelangelo No angrier God than his the Sistine Chapel a room brim full of angst and […] Read More
2022-03-19 15:31
Life has been a painfull struggle the seven plagues a struggling mind out of whack a faded threadbare free asscociation coat like an alien abandoned on earth forever looking skyward [&hellip&hell…Read More
2022-03-18 00:10
She gave me a pearl earing to show love While I returned the precious gift with a kiss The birds sang brightly in colours merging our souls She is queen […] Read More
2022-03-13 15:01
Your smile rips the curtain from my eyes A bird of fire strutting a stage strewn with flowers Kiss my lips make me happy to be alive The sacrifice of […] Read More
2022-03-12 13:16
Empathic as battery acid leper to love and kindness It’s suppurating brain whispering evil is lined with granite boulders and thoughts of nothing but sickles that hammer bone masticati… Read More
2022-03-11 12:35
Behind my face lies a mask a fronted adverbial of hidden deception a raven dark peeking through dreams of lacerated cloth gazing upon you through fearless eyes but quietly concealed [&hellip&hell…Read More
2022-03-10 15:11
A mind like an oligarch’s penthouse is loud and culturally shallow- they are damned by bad taste Flimsy is so modern a graceless emptiness echoing back like an impotent belly […… Read More
2022-03-09 18:22
Have I not a brain that goes round and round? Put me in a corner and be silent girl be silent! Does the sun rise I tell them so tell […] Read More
2022-03-08 13:12
I‘ve buried many I loved from flesh and blood to dust yet the sun always rises no matter who no longer see When none more remember it will still burn […] Read More
2022-03-07 16:20
In my bathroom early tits go tapety tapety watching with intent my morning ablusions I give them shelter as storms and sorrows leap the bounds against hard walls We are […] Read More
2022-03-05 12:47
Life can be a hopeless puzzle a throwaway incoherant commentary collective vowels of bemusement moments like rancid spaghetti years past its use by date being consumed by a starving dog [&he&hell…Read More
2022-03-01 16:04
Jesus came to visit Martha in the kitchen Mary at his feet- hanging on every Word Martha complained to Mary help me out-please but Jesus stopped her Mary-he softly replied […] Read More
2022-02-26 13:21
The mind is like water a Helgoland of memories each stray thought a fish swimming against tides Fingers tensed and pointed reaching for receding light with ghost motes dancing in […] Read More
2022-02-25 18:26
Failed memory a lost city rubble strewn and empty Tanks roll onto lawns park up gasping lungs Demanding fuel to destroy and crush the future Our thoughts flee aloft on […] Read More
2022-02-23 11:20
My mother Rachel loves her art Seurat’s cool dots Vincent’s shit hot Rabbi Simon visits to talk pictures but really comes for her cakes Bits of them cover his beard […] Read More
2022-02-21 12:57
Walk along the cobb to cleanse my soul by its crashing tides of sins and sorrows All the blurred days that turn to years their cobwebs cling like altar raiments […] Read More
2022-02-19 15:53
From where do you come? The air? The sky? Earthen depths? The heart is a weapon It’s thoughts are thickets of trees or bugs of gossimer wings stretched like jelly […] Read More
2022-02-17 15:23
The fevers of restraint are symbols of naked wood made like metronomic pistons murderous instruments of context Subtle unquotable formulations left where predators tarried to speak the formu… Read More
2022-02-15 15:38
Sparse trees nod in the passing wind upon sour clay akin to a haughty duchess far from her carriage as she lingers shivering and entertaining thoughts of the queen of […] Read More
2022-02-13 15:34
The Scarefolk blow their bone horns with percussive pride gazing upon opened hearts of bleeding meat that speckle linen jackets with the blood of prophecy I find a wicker chair […] Read More
2022-02-12 13:25
Who wears the clear skin of self knowledge? Transparent membrane worn like a shroud that titillates ground akin to stroking a cat Leaving barely a trace on shifting landscapes marked [&helli&hell…Read More
2022-02-10 12:06
Does a line think where its going to end? A heart beat seeing the future and giving up? The lost soul out of time adrift in shallows? A parting shot […] Read More
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