Animal Birthday

animal birthday 

learning to be a lioness

basking, actually basking 

under the naked sun 

one song can still overturn

churn earth, where new flowers 

Had just begun to take root

The significance of labour:

In and of itself, even if nothing else,

at least she is planting again

You Poor Fool

why are you

letting the thought

claw away your insides 

scraping pink tissue

did you really

for even a moment 

think

that it would just cease to exist 

you poor fool 

 

Psycho pig

Sometimes

I try to hold on 

To something I really like

And by the time

I can talk about it

I forget

And all I remember is

You

Psycho pig 

asteroid

I inhabit an asteroid

I've not got anything

better to do

than feel sick

about something

that didn't even happen to me

never a colleague

to the stars

I missed them by miles 

untitled

hollowed out

followed by

haphazard taxidermy

the stitching is very poor

incise a tower

with my initials 

using a fingernail 

and human hair

attend a lecture called

"how to function"

disapprove of me

for not bothering to care

that you didn't clean 

the blood off your chin

after eating my heart out

watermelon

watermelon

so abundant to begin 

now mocking skin remains 

reminds

flesh crawls

evidence of enthusiasm

since ceased

sticky cheeks repulse 

the day with you in it

the day with you in it

allows nature to seize me 

for herself

cultivating:

a wormery some days,

a bee hotel at other times

"It's never boring"

is my way of saying

it isn't good

but it's better than nothing