January 02, 2017

Just a Thought | #CapturedInWords


Is the ability to 'destroy' my missing piece? Can there be love in destruction? It seduces me in my dreams. Dogs tearing dogs apart, fireworks exploding and catching those in their wake, dismembering.

Is it taking a table in my hands and swinging it hard into a stone wall again and again, or an umbrella in a thunderstorm? Dashed against the ground like the hard rain, flashing as it throws piercing splinters into the air.

Is it taking what I think of you, and slicing coolly into your self-image with a glaring knife, deconstructing you piece by piece, and holding it up for you to see, bleeding?

Is this the love I've been staring into the face of my whole life, that I'm incapable of giving? 
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December 29, 2016

On Resolutions | #CapturedInWords

On Resolutions | #CapturedInWords
When it comes to making resolutions, there have been many in my time but I'm not convinced that I've completed a single one...
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December 08, 2016

We Need a Boatman | #CapturedInWords

We Need a Boatman | #CapturedInWords
Place your brackets around me Around us (And especially around yourself) We'll be safe there On your made-man sun Manacle me ...
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November 27, 2016

Observations from China #3 | #CapturedInWords

Observations from China #3 | #CapturedInWords
We scrolled through small villages, never pausing for longer than a moment's thought, succeeded by another, the roadside washing ov...
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November 20, 2016

Notes at 6:16am | #CapturedInWords

Notes at 6:16am | #CapturedInWords
 Last night I dreamt of a burnished American landscape in Fall  My reflection hung and pregnant upon my own gaze;  A swollen hau...
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November 19, 2016

Piaf's Mask | #CapturedInWords

Piaf's Mask | #CapturedInWords
I found your eye, Blue Scratched into my notebook January 2007 Burnt there, lingering With notes on Piaf Her name Scrawled a doze...
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November 13, 2016

The Nighthawk | #CapturedInWords

The Nighthawk | #CapturedInWords
I came to meet a nighthawk As the moon it swelled to its fullest fill Heavy, held aloft on the shoulders of the horizon As it r...
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November 06, 2016

Observations from China #2 | #CapturedInWords

Observations from China #2 | #CapturedInWords
Along the snarling mountain roads of Anxi County, pumpkins, gourds, squashes and marrows grew haphazardly; tumbling from shed tops, gna...
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November 03, 2016

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | #CapturedInWords

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | #CapturedInWords
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, thr...
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October 23, 2016

Observations from China #1 | #CapturedInWords

Observations from China #1 | #CapturedInWords
In the office of an old tea factory, the light of the late afternoon reached its arms into the dark space and illuminated that which ha...
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September 29, 2016

Autumn Haiku | #CapturedInWords

Autumn Haiku | #CapturedInWords
An autumn morning  The skies they are sighing  In a slow grumpy roll
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August 22, 2016

A Polite Man is Gone | #CapturedInWords

A Polite Man is Gone | #CapturedInWords
This grief is a quiet visitor Waiting for its turn to speak Gently, holding up its hand as if to say Don't mind me This g...
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August 21, 2016

Sunday Morning Haiku | #CapturedInWords

Sunday Morning Haiku | #CapturedInWords
Sunday stirs softly A sip, a moment in time Alone with my tea
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June 16, 2016

Actions Speak Louder Than Words | #CapturedInWords

Actions Speak Louder Than Words | #CapturedInWords
When I posted John Donne’s most famous poem ‘No Man Is An Island’ the other day, it was the beginning of a thought process that starte...
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June 12, 2016

Flowering Tea | #CapturedInWords

Flowering Tea | #CapturedInWords
'In the trembling grey of a spring dawn, when the birds were whispering in mysterious cadence among the trees, have you not felt t...
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June 11, 2016

No Man Is An Island | #CapturedInWords

No Man Is An Island | #CapturedInWords
No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed aw...
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June 06, 2016

Your Body The Sea (Pt. 1) | #CapturedInWords

Your Body The Sea (Pt. 1) | #CapturedInWords
Today I sat on a cold shingle beach Covered by a sky that came without a hem.  Knitted with clouds it was not;  An expanse of gr...
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May 26, 2016

Where's Your Sun Now | #CapturedInWords

Where's Your Sun Now | #CapturedInWords
As powerful as you are pathetic, whimpering, tormented with emotion and manacled to a ship's mast, whipped, clawed at, beaten against...
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May 19, 2016

Love is not a feeling | #CapturedInWords

Love is not a feeling | #CapturedInWords
If feelings are, by their very nature, fleeting, i sn't it wildly irrational that we chase feelings like love and of happiness in the p...
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May 15, 2016

Untitled #1 | #CapturedInWords

Untitled #1 | #CapturedInWords
The train sings as it pulls from the station, wreathed in mist and shuddering gently in the cold. Black crows are shot into what I can see ...
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