The snake hunts and sinews his way along and is not his own idea of viciousness. All he wants… a fast grab, with fur and a rapid pulse, so he can take that flutter…

Whether is it possible to become l… Whether one tree looks like anothe… Whether there is water all around the edges or not. Whether there are edges or whether

Secrecy flows through you, a different kind of blood. It’s as if you’ve eaten it like a bad candy, taken it into your mouth,

In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your… though the real question is whether or not I will make you imm… At the moment only I

This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons

‘They capped their heads with feat… their faces, wore their clothes ba… with torches through the midnight… and dragged the black man from his… to the jolting music of broken

There is nothing to be afraid of, it is only the wind changing to the east, it is only your father the thunder your mother the rain

Living backwards means only I must suffer everything twice. Those picnics were already loss: with the dragonflies and the clear… What good did it do me to know

It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flec… blended with the paper;

Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder: The edge of the forest, the edge of the desert

Starspangled cowboy sauntering out of the almost– silly West, on your face a porcelain grin, tugging a papier-mache cactus

My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling,

i The children on the lawn joined hand to hand go round and round each arm going into

i Behind glass in Mexico this clay doll draws its lips back in a snarl; despite its beautiful dusty shawl,