Sunday, 5 October 2025

the everlasting elegies must end

 the everlasting elegies must end


beware the feast of words

for it is eating you 

beware the hunger for words

that promise a feast

for it is eating you

your elegy for the sparrows

under the table’s crumbs

you cannot chirrup it all away

your seat at the feast 

was it not bequeathed to you

do not look that death’s horse in the mouth

today simply is

yours

Thursday, 2 October 2025

the masque

 the masque


under the poet’s mask

there is another mask

it has always been 

a masqued dance

words dancing with words

each carrying its own secret

hidden even from itself

they dance the candlelight hours

daylight masked

night’s eyes masked

clawing at the reader’s mask

the catastrophe of love