Inked with Love: Love Poem #15
There comes a point in our love where it’s impossible
for anything you do to disgust me…
My Nan As A Butoh Ghost
Now just the soul.
Like trapped gas.
The helium that holds her upright.
Slowly leaking out…
Inked with Love: Body And Friendship and Everything Else on My Mind
“I am two Lungs breathing.
And a Heart heaving…”
The Corpse Flower, Geelong Botanical Gardens
“Limbs splayed out. Inner flesh.
An infested wound. Reopened for inspection…”
Inked with Love: A Morning Soon
“Your warmth better blanket me more than the thickest duvet ever
could...”
Remembrance of things eaten: ANZAC Biscuits
“You eat what they ate,
And their spirit lives on in you…”
Read time: 1 min
Inked with Love: Burial
“Knowing that what you are now is in there, somewhere, I can’t take another step.”
Inked with Love: Easter
‘So I lend my heart to you,
not through words,
but through
chocolate eggs…’
Remembrance of things eaten: Zooper Dooper
“Hardened slime.
Stretchy alien hide…”
Read time: 1 min
Coming Out (Again)
“I write my story.
Constantly coming out, constantly afraid.
No one knows who I am unless I tell them.
I am tired of the cycle…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: String Cheese
“Flaying a cheese man into lactose shreds…”
Read time: 30 sec
Remembrance of things eaten: Roll Ups
“Hardened slime.
Stretchy alien hide…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Vegemite
“Thick black ectoplasm of salty yeast extract.
The sickly sap of a burnt-out rainforest…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Dunkaroo and frog in a pond
“Drowning a marsupial in a pool of frosting…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Mandarin
“Puncturing the orange exocarp through the middle with my thumb.
Peeling it back to reveal the soft squishy fingers…”
Read time: 1 min