morning’s broken looking glass mirror refracts / reflects   shows only what it wants me to see; two chess pieces red white. queens, specifically. their shape is curved. their image […]

Desktop roses, aqua blue thorns sick with guilt. I tell them they can’t help it – that’s just the way they were born, but they don’t listen so I’m like […]

Stop skipping breakfast – it’s not a cliché to say it’s the most important meal of the day. Learn to answer ‘how are you?’ honestly. The eyeshadow you bought last […]

It only takes cooked chicken bones to remind me that we’re all just animals in the end.

Sambuca is pink oil, is feathers, is wet, is not a sweated-up Kingston nightclub. Blonde on her second bottle of wine, itching at the mole on the back of her […]

A litany is a poem or prayer in which a single word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of each line A litany is a poem or prayer in […]

The piller, the vase, the bouquet. It is all planned. Celibate marble peeping toms up your skirt, the off-white one with the torn hem. You are stony, igneous. You please […]

red lips, blonde hairall the New York swaggerof the rock ‘n’ roll girlstill skin untouchablewith blazer-clad hipsat the late night barsand that smile that wins overall the boys and girlsyou […]

seaside towns with party hearts houses in colours, terraced like books an imitation wheel eyes the pier the cheap B&B gives a double room i didn’t ask, not for checkout […]