Marbles (first published on Blue Monster) The marble rolled about placidly within its jar, pondering the surrealness of life, when suddenly a chubby little hand, all fat rolls and grease, scoped it from the jar and its brethren. Then, as if greasy fingerprints were not insult enough, the chubby hand rolled the marble none too […]
The Ship (first published on Blue Monster) Along the coast a misty haze rises and blots out the horizon. This is when the destroyers often move, using radar and sonar and the like. They move with stealth and do the strangest reconnaissance of the sea floor, which considering they use explosives to do so, seems […]
A Child’s Story (first published on Turquoise Monster) In the Beginning The stars where bueatiful And surrene But then the moon appeared Scattering crumbs off Self in their paths They tasted and became hungry Seething with desire Angry with avarice at each other The throng moved as one Distorted where their pretty faces as they […]
Fairy Tale (first published on Turquoise Monster) Bread crumbs stretched for miles Children follow them in hope Crushing blow Of avian beak Tears of innocence Tears of fear Crewly abandoned not once but thrice No food, no love The pesants life Little feet bare Mud stained fretful This time lost This time without recourse Bread […]
Obsession (first published on Blue Monster) So you think I’m obsessed, do you? DO YOU?! You think that I cannot live without the feel of paper and pen, of ink and graphite, of the clunk of keys or the rattle of the endangered typewritter. Do you? What of the time singing lullabies? Well, yes, of […]
Rainbow Snake (first published on Blue Monster) Rainbow Snake sat in a box in a dark cupboard all forlorn and forgotten, his beautiful colours hidden. Of course they weren’t as bright as they used to be and the seam at the end of his tail was coming undone but he was still a good Rainbow […]
The Deepest Reaches of the Earth (first published on Blue Monster) Down deep in the depth no sunlight reaches the possible cradle of creation, the nursery of life, as it spews nourishment for the core of the Earth. The mid ocean ridges with their own life fed from volcanic vents that mar the sea sky […]
A Love Story of truly Galactic Measure (first published on Blue Monster) The planetary nebula swam unthinking through the vastness of space. All around it was the suck of vacuum as it claimed more and more dust denuding the nebula of its substance. The cloud of gas and particles had travelled for millennia to find […]
Scandal Vanished (first published on Turquoise Monster) Scandal Vanished with my life As did the debts The whinning morons And the bad parkers of the world In fact the whole world vanished Leaving serene milky blackness I stretched back in the warm fuzz Ah – relaxation at last
Spirits of Trees (first published on Turquoise Monster) Leaping greenly spirits of trees Jumping high for the joy of air Who kisses their cheeks Smooth in waxy cuticle Into the trees they pounce Making nests for birds Dropping boughs on the hunter Who enters their domain