Pasifika Queen Mab

Pasifika Queen Mab “This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,That presses them and learns them first to bear,Making them women of good carriage:”Romeo and Juliet  – William Shakespeare Doping nocturnal moths, dry and empty in their brown winged shells,The...

1:25,000

1:25000 Only slightly lost, we find the paperFolded in an inside pocket. We are there,Somewhere, one to twenty-five thousand,A mote of mobile imagining. And a trickle of blue splits the landscape. In the orange skeinWe untangle a rolling surface pressedFlat on the...

Nude Descending a Staircase No.2

Nude Descending a Staircase No.2 even nudeshave to get from one placeto another sometimesthis involves stairs treads and riserscubed and fashionedarrayed ascendantwhile stepping down this is nothing newno shiftjust movement This version first published in The...

Islander

Islander and paddling from dinghy to shoreremembering sailors who wrote about shores and oceans greenrolling plains touching those sentenceslooking at strata running my fingers along lines and discontinuitiesthese places are marginalia rising from their own...

Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère

Le Bar aux Folies-BergèreÉdouard Manet, 1882 CHARLOTTE (Off Screen): I’m stuck. Does it get easier?BOB: No, yes, it does…(Sofia Coppola, “Lost in Translation”) Caught between geometry and eternitylaced by fine fabric, cotton and holes,choker and paste,she...
05 Martin Porter

05 Martin Porter

Martin Porter was born and brought up in St Helier, Jersey. He started writing verse while in primary school and developed a love of poetry during his secondary school years. His interest in science took him across the English Channel to study at the Universities of...
A Message From Hiraeth

A Message From Hiraeth

It is no mythit is no legendit exists within meand I am telling you, dear one,so it, this gift is guiding.In this worldwhere we plant our feetwe walk amongst the talesof the beings we used to be.Take a breath with me: in — and — outthere it iscan you feel...
how to show me you love me

how to show me you love me

how to show me you love me show me fields of dandelions / tell me every detail of their beauty / press your wishes to the wind which carries them / prove you believe / there is more to magic than meets the eye play me those sad songs / you know the ones / hiding in...