If we have anything in common It is that we eat oranges from the fruit Almost like starving savages   We often take these friends to the beach And later feed their rough damp skins To the gulls who congregate on the sandy paths   After this we silently swim and listen As evening draws […]

I am an Empire at the end of the decadence I am the decadence I love this word decadence all shimmering in purple and gold I am the decadence   The poet is a madman lost in adventure Your adventure is in my chosen landscape   A poem is really a kind of machine It […]

Jane and Mirabelle were sitting on the beach Between Folkestone and Sandgate When they spotted an architect Do you like it Like what My beach hut I think it is quite marvellous Nicholas Call me Nick That is what my name means roughly in English What is your name People call me Tulip but I […]

Written on a postcard In invisible ink If anyone ever read this It would cause a stink

You can often see the solar winds When sleeping on surfboards In the calm waters far out at sea   This at present is nothing but a dream As I am trapped on a desert beach In a old hut with a decaying mermaid   It is only on the darkest of nights That you […]

About an hour ago I was sitting high on Dane John Reading To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf My edition was illustrated by a detail from a painting by Laura Knight On the Edge of the Cliff showed a young woman staring into the blue sea below I could not see the sea from my […]

Your task is not to seek for love  But merely to seek and find  All the barriers within yourself  That you have built against it    I feel love in all my thoughts No matter how small Yet barriers still remain As if forged in invisible fires   I am aware of these walls But […]

The fun starts as soon as you enter these gates  There were no gates As they were still in Rotterdam Somebody had already defaced the poster Free Auschwitz Tours Buy your Tickets Now  It was only days old but the so called artists had arrived I stood at the minimalist bus stop at the entrance […]

I painted the begging platform red today I had been meaning to do this for a number of months I have just watched a Canadian film on television Things will never be the same again   The Burning Lake Flannahan’s sister has been known to dance topless In the yard of the bungalow that I […]

Selecta Hector wretched defecktor How does your garden gro go go You are going to be at the Queen Today Which is an inn in South Hampstead   You can take Annie Hair-Hair there As I am quite busy painting this poem On two the old station wall hall Saul Saul Sam Hector magic defektor […]