Sunday 16 April 2023

Heaven is broken











Heaven is broken:
Two shards of sky at our feet,
Not a gift from any god,
Just Mammon’s ire,
Parted like spectral light
Churned through a quartz prism.

Friday 14 April 2023

Gloamin













A last keek o sun peints blue ahin the toon
an street-lichts hing like beads on roads
far the traffic breinges.

Wednesday 12 April 2023

Artifices of Intelligence










” …Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!”
The Galaxy Song – John Du Prez / Eric Idle

It’s not the algorithm
that eats out our soul;
it’s not the robot
in whose extensible
arms we take comfort.

Thursday 30 March 2023

Tick Tock












tick… tock…

aftershock
the geological clock
is a binful of decaying atoms no-one pays heed to all that rock
and rubble all that oceanic telling precisely all we have to do
with a time bomb wired and primed bound and strapped to the world