Paint these bloody stripes on the curves of my canvas, these burnished strikes – pains from my life. Denser than water, but fluid for my masterpiece. Crimson soft felt; pools darkly black. Tip the head of the brush; don’t make me blush. An aching chasm, a mouth abused, all toothed […]

It was a fledgling morning, the day we escaped. Sirens startled us awake, united by the haste of feet, and what signalled the sharpness of gunfire. Hurriedly, we fled with tear in wind, and flicker in heart, until home was but a fleck on a horizon of dust… Doors and […]

From cinder and spark comes a rising spirit, as sagacity soars on the breath of the wind. Organic, tangible, alive with the smell of nurturing seedtime. A faithful follower of your bold distinction; an unbearable calling of purpose bestowed me. Descant duality plays over my doubts, as the morning song […]

Dilated, towering, charged with sex, glammed and electric amongst sweat and tears, mystery and ecstasy; this carnal vessel of your own creation. A secret junkie friend, to confide in through the dark times. A beacon of pure cosmic rays, you blast through the enigma of ambiguity and play all the […]

Gulls cry bleak in the night with a face-full of briny spray. Like an archaeology dig-site, they peck obsessively between pebbles to unearth remains; a stagnant, cold chip – tonight’s tea. Bully boy tactics for the ‘rats with wings’, help defuse their cravings. A corroded, old skeleton stubbornly sits halfway […]

A burst of white plasma blinds innocent young eyes, incandescent… iridescent… until all humour melts away to a bone-white socket. Flesh flayed to the bone then sutured from the heat. People vanished into nothing; their shadows left behind. Permanent depressions, burned into wood, etched onto stone. Pale apparitions tread scorched […]

He burdens his palette with a murky rustic hue, of pied pastel colours – rose, beige and blue. Chiaroscuro light envelopes an evening of retreat, as a millennia of faces illume from glowing halos. Silhouettes are redundant in this puppet show escapade, and Dr. Caligari conceals his cruel masquerade. Residing […]

A spurt of smoke lacerates the air – a musky haze, it lingers, then dissipates through beams of cheap disco lights. Absent tiles expose a ramshackle gable hanging overhead; the pending danger diverted by a G&T – ice and a slice to make the cliché complete. Stereotypes sit in a […]