words

dead rabbit

dora found a rabbit
near the tip

“tell the story of a scar”

he had always been gifted at sports of all kinds /

the woman

once there was a woman who lived alone

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.

self-portrait with ghost

They hadn’t spoken in 40 years.

bone stories

i could tell it so many ways.

Can’t wait to see you

The Story of the Nether Largie Stanes

“Mooooooon!” Earth would call up into the darkness. “Gealllaaaach! Come down here and talk with me.

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.

Your fucking needs

you fucking bastard

Freedom

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

the spider

the woman remembered
the swivel of shod hooves on the dusty road,
and running.

Dora

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

my house will have no sign

you will not find it by name or number.

the boat

on windy days the sea-wives would be busy with the boats.

the fog

the woman walked south
along the high cliff path

Untitled (Mother)

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

you cannot know mother.

Scraps

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

dreams

i dreamed my name

i dreamed my mother

i dreamed i was a rotting log

baba yaga’s hut

they come to me for the stupidest things.

untitled (Balatonalmádi)

it is the day the spiders hatched.

the landing

branta came that night. paddled right up beside her in a tree-trunk canoe, offering a name.

Our season

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

the port

the woman brushed the wet sand from her dress. the pair walked on in silence

mugwort

do not underestimate
the space i will claim.

Wrong but not wrong

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

a head start

i breathed
with him barely
sipping the pale air

the dance

one day the woman awoke
feeling strange.

geese

once more with feeling:

[bellowing] you do not have to be good

For Molly

Some things are worth more
than a risky fuck

the sea-wives

«mother doesn’t give a shit.»

women throwing things into fires

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