I pass.

It is a lynch­pin of my life Out­sider on the inside Yet I slide under radar Designed to trap my fellow Queers, genderfreaks, Col­on­ised souls. I infilt­rate priv­ileged spaces with my passing. I come out over and over Dis­com­fit...

Mornings I meander down Degraves

A small slice of Europe. Café Lorca Makes me crave huevos de gamba and strong black coffee Il Papiro whis­per­ing to me of Firenze and the old bridge across the Arno look­ing up towards Ponte alle Grazie Book­shops that laugh at me because I’m...

God, what a day

A child gashes their foot on a sharp screw, unat­ten­ded. Her mother com­pla­cent, absent. A man mis­in­ter­prets a word here and next thing you know, fur­niture raised over­head, glass tinkles as it’s smashed, draw­ers flung across a room leave...

I almost missed a day

And it turns out that’s unforgivable Because I’m now writ­ing lines to you in my head Lying in the dark in my bed It does­n’t matter that I sent you other words Sur­repti­tious in the social stream Oscar Wilde’s hand soft on Walt...

I am writing lost love letters

I am writ­ing lost love letters to ampersands, my favourite — with its cur­licues in arcane typefaces, it peeks out at me from designer invitations & grungy res­taur­ant names & I play seek. I invent reas­ons to unfurl my...