I saw it through the bamboo shoots He was trying to reach your opal fruits Adam and Eve And the Eden Project In a cascade of cherubs with lutes So was I like, God? Or was I the devil? I was whichever one jumped out the bushes And went “Caught you red handed!” in the Bible It’s like, a whole religious thing... Remember the house Where outside I...Learn More

The aching solace of the salt marsh Punctuated with a white plastic bag That was blowing in a frenzy This is the night of the Triffids We were creeping like roots Through the cat grass We were combing the cave floor For your mobile The heavy duty electric torch Locked you in it’s beam And your eyes bounced spectrums Of light round the walls It was...Learn More

What artifacts remain? Just metres below our sleeping bags And battery speakers? Secret mounds indicating Ice age civilisations Upper paleolithic Mammoth ivory Betula Pendula is her Latin name I want to touch you at the stigma Make your anthers explode In a passionate paroxysm of pollen (And possibly confetti) I want to embrocate my infatuation In...Learn More

Bodies found in ancient woods And from the gauge of his corduroy We can date him back To the start of the last millennium Bending like driftwood Float down with the pond skaters Now the woods is electric A nightclub in the trees One of the older boys Fashioned a hammock Somewhere down here And I overheard you talking About swinging in it Oh...Learn More

Rising like a bog man Out of the muck You’re facing the jagged wall And all the birds are chiming I keep thinking about sticky eyes...? I used to get it all the time When I was a kid In the late 1990s Maybe it’s just something you grow out? I want to be authentic like the cave Like the woods and all the wildlife Within it But I’m stricken with...Learn More

It’s a little island of coarse shrub And you have to cross a bridge to get to it I tried to take a photograph of the river once But it was just pulsating with glistening oil So there I was in the assembly hall Drawing a cross section of an ox bow lake For the homework that she didn’t do I heard a true story that she did someone In the dunes And I...Learn More

Welcome to the witching hour The loos are down the hall to the right Feel free to lean on the wood Vibrating from an animal bite The night she went missing I saw her kissing a stranger in a car The night of her passing I was amassing glasses at the bar Maybe it's just a summer of the shark How did you know the deceased? Ah, I didn't really She...Learn More

Somebody said I'm not sure who told me But somebody told me Down past the wildlife identification plaque On Saturday night Everyone is staying at each other's houses Sneaking out Out into the thicket And the fox gloves and the rhododendrons Bending back For the breaking glass Of fake drugs and bonfire ash What, go to the woods On Saturday...Learn More