Homeless

I am a thing / not a thing

elevated to the status

of object / product

a float between what

you’ve seen / thought you saw

. / ignored

the error of our ways

is the tragedy of our days

how long until O becomes Q

until the realisation gains a tail

& the question of de-evolution

is reconsidered by apes

on a production line

look, squatted in a shopfront

under discoloured blankets

the disgrace of our lives

thrown from the line

I am a thing / not a thing

Published in Page Seventeen, Issue 12, November 2015

Don’t Think Too Much

don’t think toom uch.

This poem was first published in Writ. Poetry Review, 5 January, 2015

A later revision of this poem appears in The Frequency of God, Close-Up Books (December, 2017) and can be read here

An audio of the earlier version is available here

This poem was first published in Writ. Poetry Review, 5 January, 2015

A later revision of this poem appears in The Frequency of God, Close-Up Books (December, 2017) and can be read here

A video of the earlier version is available here