with thanks to The Bennett Sun

Those beautiful women singing   each with her frailty lighting her face   yearning and delight in nimble fingers strumming and plucking   a sweet kindness of pine trees more real than hothouse rose;   weaving an invitation,   gently commanding...

Horny

Help me to be horny for joy spreading through this wave of muscles and sensations   not just my own but all of us   feeding our appetites for kindness   cleaning the air with our choices   stopping the bombfall because there are better games, more...

Snap

Let me learn how to love   fall consumed by shine on a leaf   hear the snap crackle pop in your voice even as I savour my oatmeal   be licked by stray dogs, bring them home without leashes   a pied piper with a crippled heart and dancing refugees...

Groggy

Mid-life can be like waking groggy from an afternoon nap with some regret for the angle of the sun, how the golden evening is here and there is still time to play but the day is receding quickly.   Some go reeling when they hear the herald call of dark, frantic...

On the mat

The wag end of a dog, flick of a tail pointing to instinct and pleasure expressed by the planet through years of evolution in one brief wave   so much of what I do the same involuntary movement   except the planet can see it when I do   having evolved...