October 2017

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

i 'n' i
in a conjunction
of mysteries

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

spring madness —
i plant odd haiku
in your mouth

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

rising sun
anguish's slow descent
into platitudes

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

sleep in-turning death's portal

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

the full moon
exposing reveries
to live by

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

for now
wherever i am
i'm there too

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

down her cheek
a tear has no colour
of its own

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

this dark night
is like a simile
for nothing else

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

• Bones 14

spring return
i try to live up to
my obituary

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

making perfect sense freesias

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

static page
crafting the -ings and outs
of change

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

bent over reed
reliving the memories
i never had

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

emptier even more night shadow

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

optical allusion
in the wink
of an eye

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

no spring chicken in blossom

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

god forsaken
in a gadda da vida
garden tears

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

• Bones 14

spring forecast
i reverse engineer
my ancestry

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

dead silence
can the sea know
it consoles me?

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

moon glimpses —
death seems not so far
out of reach

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

morning mist
words lost where the mind
can’t be found

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

dead-born child
all time and space
is a morepork

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

a wind chime
softens
the stacatto

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

noonday demon
a purr pads across
my chest

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

sourceless wind
fire licks open
a pine cone

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

in night visions
a beginning and an end
alphabetised

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

all over the stain of words

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

my shadow sinks
under the weight
of my presence

Details

Written by: Stephen Bailey

thinking on nothing
my eyes also do not see
that which is unseen