The moths came with a soft flutter one night and burrowed intothe deepest recesses of cloth. Their offspring had their fill, gnawedthe wool and cashmere mix of a coatframed by a hanger, shaped like you. They punched out holes, some like starswhich didn’t shine, coalesced into craters.Silver dust littered the wardrobe carpet. They were driven […]
The moon shone down on the jungle.
/ Night Monkey climbed up the tree.
/ She clambered and leapt to where Day Monkey slept,
/ And…
I bend an ear to your sound, put my knees in the dirt,
/ offer my orifices to you like doorways
/ to…
Stepped on in the dark,
/ the cockroach was crushed
/ to pulp. All night,
/ an army of ants have
/ scoured its flesh,
/ leaving the carcass behind…
Coorie in the corner, sittin a’ alane,
/ Whan the nicht wind’s chappin
/ On the winnock-pane:
/ Coorie in the corner, dinna greet ava;
/ It’s…
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush / I hear the level bee…
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush / I hear the level bee…
2
/ termite
/ skyscrapers
/
/ he tries
/ to separate
/ his
/ eyes
/
/ the man
/ who
/ minds
/ 2
/ termite
/ skyscrapers
/
/ comes home
/ with
/ nothing
/ and
/ a
/ headache
/ …
From high endeavour
/ On his bright wings,
/ The wasp is fallen
/ To evil things.
/
/ From deep…
Seillean
/ dian, dùrachdach
/ a’ siubhal nam blàth
/ mar a bhà
/ ann an Àird nam Murchan
/ o chionn dà cheud bliadhna gu leth
/ agus an dubh-Mhùideartach
/ ga dhian-amharc,
/ agus…
the crickets
/
/ one by one
/ whirring out
/
/ like flakes of light
/ from heaven
/
/ flickered at the
/ trees and grass
/
/ and sat
/ and sang
/
/ and something moved
/ something changed
/
/ the…
Ahoy there, prince of parasites!
/ At risk of giving you a fright,
/ you have been, estimable mite,
/ immortalised,
/ and scaled to literary heights.
/ Are you…
