Smeaton's Tower when you were out at sea even with all her storms she couldn’t reach your candles started digging for your roots rings of your body restacked on the shore now where you watch her waves that would have licked your skeleton sucked the light from your brain and bones you would have welcomed …
I wasn’t built with certainty
I wasn’t built with certainty made last thing on a Friday afternoon all my screws nuts and bolts one turn away from being tight enough not quite enough solder on my circuits or flooded into each other all my edges a few millimetres from being flush all my doors either scrape the floor or draws …
Walking with you
Walking with you slowed our steps to match our long breaths considered the faintness of every footfall felt them behind us already beginning to evaporate weighed each word in our mouths explored its shape with our tongues made us speak softer did we hear the grass stretching skywards? as stoned sunlight like lazy lightning spilt …
