In soft lamp on my polyester pillow O wind blows… blood flows… Washed laundry waits Pensive and crumpled… Wanted texts halt my pen in surprise Ye charisma sings from the phone in my grasp Stirring a pulse within my ribs, The start of a sonnet… O thou lively gladiator, eros
O glossy black keyboard and turquoise bottle Black wireless mouse with a dark blue stripe My long-wired headset, notebook, Muji pen How all these things combine to give my desk its zen. Chomping carrots, floating thoughts I type my poems — wait, key messages... Life is cordial at the office:
Got up at six to go to Foxton Where we smelled a dead cow and blistered our hands. The double’s sun-strike, ice-cap, coral-blue beckoned Foxton's mud-brown current threatened. It was going to be a first time sculling together. The question was: Were we
O didymo (AKA snot rock); How you’ve inspired my master’s thesis Because no one knows how to eradicate you yet. I first heard about you while getting ready for the Routeburn: the reason I needed to pack extra togs. You slimy, yucky, ugly thing. You growing clug of
When I first heard the Vroom Vroom EP in year 13, it struck me as wild and wonderful: 12:19 of bliss, bubblegum lambos and glossy black. When there were two mixtapes released in one year I flew to Sydney to see Pop 2… no questions asked. When she was
O ergonomic rowing machine — erg — how you inspire me to connect with my spirit, feel the pulses of my heart, and the sweat that gleams off my skin whenever we hang out. I never thought I'd date an inanimate object, no less tell the world about it, but
Upon the silent laundry mirror With shaving cream on my cheeks, chin, neck I took in the outside through the window Pondered this scene – Twink foam clung to my olive skin, like Dew on the flax bushes. Wet taupe cloth stuck to my Skin with a shiver – squeezed remnants fell
When you left the windows open and a bird got in and shat everywhere Because you had been lazy that day and boiled eggs in the kitchen While watching Suits in the lounge But the pot handle started melting And the whole house smelled like plastic, that is what you
Light gold cirrus sprinkled the harbour, Greeted sunbathing shipping containers. Oars cut into the cool gleaming diamond An eight legged insect – We drove the quad. Pair of little blue penguin's heads bobbed by. We looked then rowed by in one straight line. Cox, One, Two, Three, Four, we
