The Coroner Virus
The coroner virus has set up in town. He’s taking your pulse and your President down.
Little Boy Avery in a Dream
You were never going to drown in my dream. I wouldn’t let that happen—
Time’s arrow
‘Sent out of sight Somewhere becoming rain’ We let the arrows go, Fighting with all we have.
Season Poem (for Johannesburg)
Another Winter; each is different, each is fringed with last year’s, arthritic twigs and blackened grass…
Mending Clothes
I fix my husbands clothes, darn his socks, repair the holes
where he splits his jeans…
The good of you
How good of you to do your best for our great population. So we'll do right by your request, to heal our ailing nation.
The Insurrectionist
Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd…
In Your Foreign Land
Though seventy years of snow have sheathed your homeland’s crops and landscapes…
The Dreadful Menace
I am the dreadful menace, the one who haunts by night. Living inside a cave of doom…