I dream of ghosts, fluid as smoke, converging on moonlit avenues lined with silver birches; a landscape of coolest blues and softest greys wrapping around me, filling my lungs, blurring into a steely sea, waves rising and falling, thrashing and writhing, beneath blackening clouds, heavy with rain. I dream of you, emerging from the mist … Continue reading
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Love Poem
Streams of golden mist weave paths through streets lined by temples of glittering emerald, shining dew. Continue reading
Spring
Frozen, caught amid too-eager birdsong, you’re staring, watching her bloom Continue reading
We:
Me: pale, blurry-eyed, full of fluttering doubt, looking at Continue reading
Phosphorescent
My arm lingers on her waist, we’re draped in leather, in lace. With a crystal glass raised to her plump rosebud lips, she smiles, milk and honey, sticky and sweet. This evening she’s soft, smelling of glamour and dusk, of violets and fire and fortune and wine, of quaking hands on a graceful thigh. I inhale. She laughs. I breathe … Continue reading
Dreams in Chrysanthemum Colours
In violet tinged dreams I line your room with chrysanthemums; red, pink, yellow, white… A shade for every hue of my adoration, my gentle rejection, my admiration and infatuation, my desperate desire for honesty. When I wake my mouth is a desert. My eyelids sticky and sweet as honey, the sheets tangled beneath my legs … Continue reading