reverse biography

home becomes a destination 

diaspora a beginning  

 creativity

both draining and fulfilling 

at the same time 

 gravity spins

around the plug hole

of wondering 

gentle music

a muscle twitches 

out of sync 

 lobelia blues

stuck to a wet table

in september 

 a cat

suddenly notices me

• stand-off 

 fallen leaves 

ten thousand variations 

of autumn

 through the window 

the reflection of a candle

in a windy tree

 global warming

the sale of red pens

goes through the roof

 plastic gown

which side am i on now

- a skipped heart beat

 the wry smile 

of a pathetic salesman

i just don’t buy it 

a wry smile 

a pathetic salesman

i just don’t buy it

 euphemism lies in the chapel of rest

the last butterfly 

our cat is fast asleep 

on a pile of leaves 

 composing myself

at the last door of all

my deathbed haiku

falling leaves

a tiffany lamp warming 

my whisky glass 

 suburbia 

there is ivy invading 

the plastic grass

 jiggle jiggle jiggle

a squirrel gathering nuts

in the corkscrew hazel 

 a parcel of time

slowly wrapped slowly 

sent on its way

 the cat’s eyes

and i 

eye an autumn leaf

 leaf by leaf

the wind by west

a realisation 

 an open seed pod

my finger reaches out 

for tomorrow