A face, the pearl in the centre of a pendant
glowing to you, a sacred thing,
to keep me safely at your chain.
Category: poetry
Einstein Visits the Piggly Wiggly
There was the time Einstein visited the Piggly Wiggly. Alfred has it recorded in a photograph. The photograph is really of a later time, that afternoon perhaps, after the Piggly Wiggly, when Einstein was standing […]
Paradise My Ass
Dig your bible story babies: Adam and Eve Yahweh’s hobby-serfs made ignorant put to work as gardeners they’d still be there except a wily serpent set them straight on how things worked […]
The Affair
There were no condoms or do not disturb signs – we clung to the moment
And I yearned to be the other woman.
Menu
In Chinese restaurants you’ll find recorded in a menu the five stages of intercourse, according to men. Mild. Hot. Very hot. Nut. Vegetable. *** David Green lives in Co Galway, Ireland. Nominated for Over The […]
Rejecting Spring
Don’t want muddy tracks on a floor still dirty from melted snow to be how I know it’s spring. Freshly blooming flowers don’t worry about six feet or face masks, but they need rain and […]
On Getting One Hundred Rejections in a Month: A Personal Interview
I had all the confidence to cultivate forever this one bloom;
It would forever be the prettiest thing in my mind.
Sorry, not Sorry
I am so sorry, I want you to know
How truly sorry I am.
