Sometimes, I can see daily life within the capacity of a retro 48k
computer; the colour clash — together with the sunniest days Sun
can be quite mesmerising. No loading error…
The Very Most Splendid Train Service
The very most splendid train service,
never late nor leaves it’s track.
As it goes deeper underground,
accidentally switching to another line,
it stumbles across secret stations,
And now the return service is not so good.
Lost Gravity
When I walk on the pavements that knit together my small town, I occasionally hover, fleetingly and quite randomly above the colourless concrete.
Recently, I stood still behind a tree and measured approximately one centimetre of nothing between my feet and the inevitable, and for those seconds I did not wonder how, all I asked was… why? Until, my feet felt firmly on the ground.
Decision Time!
Man A to Man B, “I think I’m in trouble!”
“I don’t want to know,” say’s Man B in his bubble.
Man A in a panic, “I can’t make a decision!”
“Really” Says Man B, with a dry tone of derision.
Man A in his anger, “You look just like me; my double!”
Man B in his shield, “You’re beginning to crumble,
and the difference Man A is I’m fine in my shield”
Man A replies, “You look sad being alone in a field,
I’m gonna burst your bubble, you’re coming with me,
II teach you to man up, live your life and be happy.”
Man B had now gone and Man A was just a man,
He walked into his field, thinking plan after plan after plan.
Room Service
Jon White was alone in his bed sleeping; his only support was his new memory foamed mattress. At 3.05 he awoke with urgency, needing the bathroom. He hadn’t yet seen, encountered, the heart pulsating shock, which was; the dark figure standing, facing the opposing wall.
A totem in the blackness, she stood in the centre of the room; silent, motionless with no acknowledgement of her surroundings. Jon’s only thought was for the sweet blessed relief he would feel in the bathroom.
He grabbed his duvet and purposefully flung it away from his tepid body. Now, exposed to the arctic impression of the bedroom, the atmosphere in the room sent Jon’s skin temperature to plummet; tightening around his bony adolescent frame like an invasion. With his skin no longer flexible and encasing, Jon not only felt the harsh cold but increasingly ill, only once before had he felt this sick; when he was witness to his father’s death.
Sealand Daydream#1
In a shimmering sea lies creation,
a wrecked city, a lost at sea population.
Provisionally, some strangers are made king,
so long as the shore-wind that follows does sing.
Now I can daydream considerably longer,
as I become the tide, I arrive stronger.
In a lost world, without soil or land,
many sandcastles are formed without their sand.
Then I see an overhead sign in neon magenta,
The Last Salty Sea-dogs Drop-in Centre.
A merman’s place but as man-made as a moat,
now is the time if on dry ground I shall float.
And to scribble from the teeth of a shark,
keep your mouth shut and leave before dark!
As the Lighthouse Blinks its Eye
As the lighthouse
blinks its eye,
the seabirds laugh;
as soon as coastal rocks
dive backwoods to the sea,
when boats below
do collide, harmlessly,
into themselves.
And as long as
the shore-wind blows
its crystal salt kisses
to nightwalkers lips,
scattering diamonds
along coastal paths,
the pebbles,
pulled by the moons lost drink
clap their celebration.
All the while,
glimpses of
an alternative life;
noticeable by chattering
at every opening of a door.
Everything,
near-bye,
chased by a yellowed light;
bathing and outlining
loyal machines as
they click;
to temperatures
of their original setting.
Somewhere
the tired,
the travelled,
stare at waters old,
new, then old,
from cliff-faces resting.
Before deeper into night
arrives a more peaceful light
and so the lighthouse
shuts its eye.
Little Stone
You chose a beautiful stone; held its smoothness, smothering it entirely for
safe keeping, your lucky stone.
Then one day you skimmed it across an ocean. Never did it stop, that little
stone, not for one second, for it was unable to sink for fear of never being
found again.
Alone, it skimmed, alongside container ships and fishermen, over dancing
shoals, around islands, deemed lost.
It played with sea monsters, memorised the coordinates to shipwrecks and
lost aircraft.
The little stone also survived the greatest storms and skipped through
waters as flat as a mirror.
Only then did it pause for reflection. Then on it went, to find a perfect beach to
settle on.
On the beach, it rested, hopeful for another hand, your hand,
the Holiday Stone.
The Sigh
You’re shallow breather,
and your thoughts are without tongue.
Once, your eventual sigh blew the leaves off a tree,
then you said,
‘It was just a breeze!’
The Witch
“Daddy … Daddy!” I hear the fear in a small, distant voice.
Suddenly I am half awake.
Then I hear, “Daddy!” and the voice, less small and no longer distant.
I bolt upright in my bed; groggy, confused, heavy, drugged by my sleep.
“Ok, Ok, I’m coming I’m coming, what’s the matter? I’m coming!” I reply.
I take a glance at my wife’s uninterrupted sleep, I can’t see her, more feel her… She is there. With my eyes, not yet adjusted to the dark, I step out of bed and stumble clumsily. Using my left thigh like a blind man’s stick, I bounce, to and fro from the edges of my bed.
Until, eventually, I make it somewhere near my bedroom door, and I grab at it with more luck than judgement. I find the handle and pull the door open with more force than necessary. Gingerly I step onto the landing and find my son opening the door to his bedroom to meet me.
“What’s the matter darling?” I ask with whispered concern.
“There’s a witch in my room!” he whimpers. As I kneel down to his eye level he walks into the top of my shoulder and nuzzles his cheek into mine, I rub his back.
“A witch, Oh, there’s no witch,” I whisper calmly into his ear. There’s a temporary hush in background noise, then I notice the wind rush, buffet our house. I acknowledge the weather for the first time; it’s invisible force throws smaller unknown objects into the much larger and more guessable ones.
“It’s just the wind,” I say.
I kiss him on his cheek; looking over his little shoulder and into his bedroom, I notice something strange moving in my son’s bed.
Whatever it is writhes like a large worm, slithering in the darkness, I stare, panicked by its nonsense until the duvet cover falls away, exposing a face, it has my son face, no, it is my son.
In bed, my son calmly asks me, “Daddy, what are you doing?”
I’m unable to answer, for my shock injects itself into my rapidly beating heart, pumps a poison round my veins, I rot internally and then in no time at all, I pass out.
I Eat Let.ers 