Tag: Poems about love
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Old English
We had a pet dog when I was a boy. A great, stupid, soft, shaggy Old English sheepdog. I think my mother bought him to make up for the regular lack of husband. I can still remember the smell of his fur, even now, so many years later, a wet, sweaty, slightly dirty smell. It’s…
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When You Were
When you were here I did not hear you I did not listen to you You were just you – When you were gone I could not miss you I could not think of you You were past you – When you were dead I could not look at you I did not want to…
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This Is Modern Love
It begins with a barbecue. It often does. Out on the front lawn, with fold-up chairs and a puffed-up paddling pool, on a manky stand that is never cleaned, they cremate creatures and eat them. The lighter fuel stink and the great swirls of smoke they freely share with neighbours, who stare and tut through…
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We Don’t Understand Us
You don’t get it. I can’t get it right. We don’t understand us. Nothing of us is understandable. We are complex, complicated, completely normal in our abnormal ways. This is how it goes, how life unfolds for us, for all of us, for always, forever, ’til death us do part, our carved hearts entwined in…
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Writing Me Up 