Stuart Miller-Osborne

The Christmas lights have been extinguished As have those of the gaming machine The year is nearing its end  Its pulse is now quite faint The new year is nearing this port But has yet to arrive

Due to a childhood condition I often lapse into short periods of sleep My eyes remain open But they hide my startling dreams Today I dreamt of five neon poets At liberty in a departmental store

I would like to think that I taught you everything you know But that is false as you have taught me so much more Stay with me Lagos Sister Through these slow and savage nights

Whilst travelling through space Betty Cameron changed her name From Betty Cameron to Betty Cameron Betty is a member of a travelling circus Whilst I am an lowly itinerant worker named Joe

Juliet read stories to the assembled children from behind the barbed wire                                                                                       …

You have an adorable habit of taking your shirt off And dancing topless in the fading light of the day You call this your Lake Lands and your dances Can last for between five and fifteen minutes When I ask you why you do it you tell me that there is no answer Yet I…

The path that led to the beach and the thin sea trees with their crimson flowers                                                                               …

I am the youngest daughter of the Virgin And am currently planting both branches and twigs Into the dry soil of my Fathers house I do this so that my children may grow Surrounded by the small memories of my childhood

Nature in itself has many signatures some are simple and others are much more complex In car parks for instance the sequential numbers that are stenciled onto the rough walls begin to fade after a few years Yet the car park is still functional This worries me a great deal as I often study sea…

Since my youngest years I have always left my final sweet alone And hope that it admires the randomness of my gesture This also applies to confectionary that falls from my grasp In my view these sweets have escaped and are now free   Quite often I pick up sea shells on the beaches near…