ANTICIPATION

Reductive

empire of the modern

annexes old

sensations

smart phones

caller ID

a few less moments’

anticipation –

it’s never

who

you wanted it to be.

ESTRANGED

Your name

a sudden-plunging lift

your picture

a punch –

solar-plexus left

hook

your life

apart

your doing

fine

your shadow

where you lay

your absence

your fingernails

broken-off in my heart

I miss you

I hate you

Love me.

NIGHT LIFE

Dance

naked in the firelight

run down to the water’s side

      where

vagrant in sequined night

multi-coloured creatures play.

Diaphanous in hostile day

by night they glow

phantasmic plastic orbs

explode

                flare

fizz

         fade

fall in smoking piles

swept up by the dawn tide.