poems

Our season

How you loved to tell that tale.
How I loved to hear it.

Freedom

It is the risk-taker in you
that I fell in love with

Wrong but not wrong

I thought I was bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.

Can’t wait to see you

Scraps

I pause to think of all the things I could do to regulate my nervous system

Your fucking needs

you fucking bastard

For Molly

Some things are worth more
than a risky fuck

dead rabbit

dora found a rabbit
near the tip

Dora

it is not a friendship,
not a business transaction,
not a love affair,
not a baby.

women throwing things into fires

on any given night
whether the moon be bright
and fat
or a shadow of herself

mugwort

do not underestimate
the space i will claim.

bone stories

i could tell it so many ways.

a head start

i breathed
with him barely
sipping the pale air

geese

once more with feeling:

[bellowing] you do not have to be good

the sea-wives

«mother doesn’t give a shit.»

the dance

one day the woman awoke
feeling strange.

At last

we are drunk for the first time
in the foothills
of cadair idris
fresh out of school where for five years they called us lemons
and dykes.

baba yaga’s hut

they come to me for the stupidest things.

my house will have no sign

you will not find it by name or number.

Untitled (Mother)

sea, ever changing, ever constant.
what do you know about mother?

you cannot know mother.

You are the tiny person, the cupped hand, and every moon

A tease, a glimpse, a late bloom.
An idea of what you might become.