Love Dare Not

there is no good news
for the rhapsodised
nor for their lovers nor ourselves
who are also artists and buy love
like cheap concrete
cumbersome stone
to build our phantasms with

Two Minutes

I don’t need silence

for memory to work
even when remembering
becomes that different thing
remembrance

End All

one hundred
years of war
to end all wars

gravestones
names inscribed
the written record
the dying and the dead
on every side
ledgers of death