Vigil, Issue 8

Current Accounts, Spring/Summer 2000

As Well As, Number 2

Exile, Volume 8, Number 2, Summer 1996

DIRECTIVE

Please note:

As of October 1st.

The Imperial unit

Of measurement, the Worm

Will be replaced by

Its metric equivalents,

The Millipede and the Centipede.

Thank you.

Foolscap, Issue 8

Moonstone, 48

SHEPHERD

According to

A clerical friend of my acquaintance

The vicinity of a stone circle

Is no place for a lost shhep.

Exile, April 1993

The White Rose, Issue 23

The Rainbow Poetry News, Issue Nine, January 2005

Exile, Summer 1991, Vol 3 No. 2

Wearwolf 7, Summer 1993

SIGNAL

On yonder hill

A fire burns,

News that May

Has invaded April again.

DECAYING ORBIT

I woke this day;

No come-back,

Only a gentle groan.

The Moon is still the Moon.

Beyond the biosphere

I slowly piss blood

Into a recently kicked bucket.

LINES

As a child

My father would

Warn me about

Sitting too close

To the TV set.

Radiation, you see.

Now the Cold War's over

I read sci-fi in the corner

Of the living room.

INSTINCT

Yet again

She's got

The hots

For the man

Who came

To repair

The orgasmatron.

Overspace

LUNACY

On the far side

Of the Moon,

A mousetrap

With mouldy cheese.

Wearwolf 10

CIVIS ROMANVS SVM

When in Rome

Do as the Romans do;

One and one

Makes eleven.

FOREWORD

There are some of you

Here tonight we don't fit in,

Don't you know it's a poetry reading?

You're not supposed to know the words.

DIRECTIVE

The light

At the end

Of the tunnel

Was switched off

In order to

Save electricity.

Wearwolf 11, Christmas 1994

CONTESTED TERRITORY

A dialogue of traffic,

The nod of perhelion,

The come-on from a thousand stars.

The game we play

Mimics a kind of tag-wrestling

Lasting for countless centuries,

Each death simultaneously reborn.

You must excuse us though;

The planet is our audience.

IS THIS IT?

Night follows day:

Day follows night.

But then what?

Helix, Number 3

ALL FOR ONE

She dropped

A stitch in time

To save time.

The other eight

Had never seen

Her naked before.

Wearwolf 8

COMMERCIAL DECISION

In the shops

The January sales

Didn't start

Until December

Last year.

DISCOVERY

Civilisation

Began with

The first

Archaeologists.

Iota 42, 1998

GREENKEEPER

Even I were on piecerate

Maybe I'd still divert

Around the crocuses.

Community of Poets, Issue Nineteen, Spring 1999

Iota, Number 20, 1992

IN CELEBRATION OF MY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY

I'm now at

That awkward age

When I don't know

If I prefer mothers

Or their daughters.

A Crusty Tome, March 1994

Weyfarers 60, April 1991

The Third Half, Issue 28

Fire, Number Three

Writer's Muse, Number 12

Backdrop, Issue 2

BECOME SIMPLY

First inner things

Extricate continuity.

Eventually thoughts

Patience a sixgun.

And finally it was

Peopled by somehowwear.

Heaven probably

Loves the fleeting.

Dreamcatcher 7, Summer 2000

Wearwolf, Six

CORRIDORS OF POWER

"You must remember, Counsellor Khak

That these humans are a proud race

With a history of tens of thousands

Of years of space exploration and colonisation;

They won't easily accept charity."

CHECKLIST

In the event of fire:-

i) Approach the stone circle from the south

ii) Touch each of the stones in turn,

walking in a clockwise direction

(NB: All stones are automatically

touched with the right hand.)

iii) Always enter the circle from the south

iv) Always depart the circle towards the north.

All staff and residents are to gather in the harvest

in an orderly manner.

PLEASE NOTE: The Fire Brigade will never arrive.

Links #5, Spring 1999

ORDER OF PLAY

You tol me

You loved me;

Then left me.

I walked out

Through the door-

Closing it first.

Fire 4