He who defines the law, defines the crime and defines the criminal. “Brief: 366/2020 project, prompt ‘Crime’
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Spy
You made me meet you each morning, ‘I need a running friend’ you lied, No coincidence the route you chose Ran passed our teacher’s house. Two young spies, poorly disguised As ‘keeping fit’ before sunrise, So you could catch a secret glimpse And nurse it in your mind. I, the unwitting companion to your teenage …
Bike
Propped in the corner of the gravel yard, with time-tanned saddle and rusted chain, Thunbergia growing round it’s russet frame. She’d ridden to town to meet him, dark eyes alight with sunlight, tangled curls of copper teasing the wind. They married as spring unfolded and rode on from there together, she his unruly freedom and …
Movement
Atomic symphony, folding to fall through dissonance and consonance. Cosmic dance, drawn in flowing resistance and constant flux. Lover’s scene, paused in motion, pushed and pulled through tension and release Movement is everything, nothing is still "Brief: 366/2020 project, prompt 'Movement’
Town
Dad’s stride, fly me like a kite to town Went home, left me in the bank town Carnival float, dressed in theme town Hardware store, bored now town Excited in the outdoor store town Waiting for sister’s dance class town Buy by the pound, sweet shop town Summer dress days, Mum and I town Allowed …
Lock
I bolted myself safely in, With my stained steel lock, Experience engraved In it’s cold hard skin. Then I swallowed the key, You can hear it break free, when I Sing. "Brief: 366/2020 project, prompt 'Lock’ Part of my 2020 New Years Resolution (exercise and challenge!) to write ‘something’ each day for 366 days and …
Wash
She rumbles ashore Her sea-tired fingers pick through the pebbles And tumble them all Each one turned with clackering objection As she hush hushes her brooding waters over every one. White petticoat blooms And foams as she folds time and time again Back forth and breaking Her wringing fingers tirelessly launder. Sea washes her shore. …
