by phoenix | Feb 9, 2006 | Poetry, Uncategorized
For Aveline de Rais Rubinshteyn she is standing in thrall to the tempest she has nothing to lose but her hide she knows all the tricks and she’s seen all the hicks and she’s secretly crying inside her skin is a rocking horse palimpsest she has nothing to...
by phoenix | Aug 1, 2005 | Poetry, Uncategorized
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 a star-gazer — you don’t...
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 foul seraphs...
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 a proud ancient thing, settled...
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 filled with memories of...
