by phoenix | Aug 1, 2005 | Poetry
This hypertext poem started out as an experiment to show my students you could make compelling content without knowing a lot of HTML. And then I got a little obsessed! It’s a story of a fire dancer and a mask-maker and...
by phoenix | Jul 7, 2005 | Poetry, Uncategorized
these pared down, harrowed days conjured from flame and fervour spread thin like a cry drawn from parched lips; like an ache refracted. in our cities, bodies drift like sparks in conflagrations — ash-light; empty rhetoric falls gnarled as tinder. what...
by phoenix | Jun 22, 2005 | Poetry, Uncategorized
Ah winter, your vaulted roofs are sandstone And your halls are chill. Your corridors echo with a lone brown oak leaf and the south wind. On the steps, a philosopher dreams civilization, Smoke curling around his fantasies. Winter, You are...
by phoenix | May 15, 2005 | Poetry, Uncategorized
For my Grandmother She is old and crimped like a pinched-off string Yesterday was filled with memories of buttercups She made dolls of mountain devils when they were babes Tomorrow, a glass of sherry on her own, in her room Yesterday was...
by phoenix | Apr 18, 2005 | Poetry, Uncategorized
It’s like this: You go numb into your silent lunch hours Into the chill doom of daylight Are swept streetless down to city libraries Walk out with China Mieville novels And Duke Ellington and urban fairytales Trying to warm your hands and heart...
by phoenix | Mar 4, 2005 | Poetry, Uncategorized
I half-expect Gitane-smoking men To flow through the door, Exclaiming: “the world is here And demands exultation! O celebrate, you daughters of justice! O weep, you children of suspicion! The ivy has freed the streetlamps. Statues guard...
