Empire of Whimsy

 I remember  Rough rope knots digging into aching flesh Dappled light Sour sweetness of salted skin seasoning  the scent of the clematis. To...

 I've been waiting so long. I said, I've been waiting so long. But like every man or woman that ever has been, you're running la...

  https://on.soundcloud.com/LR83k Some of you may have been wondering why I have been quiet recently.  I have been busily working on a new p...

We wear our palms out applauding luck as if there's any skill in such; like raffle tickets are determined by solid research. Candles...

As I woke the other day the sky broke. Big, grey splotches on concrete. Each one a cocktail thrown by an ex-lover in defeat. Dre...

On this, the day of martyred lovers I recall a misunderstood comment. “One day I’ll see you live” it said. Of course it meant li...

I’m a loud speaker, baby. The fun-house mirror of the world. I amplify the signals. I throw back at you your words. I’m a great bi...

All week long I saw them. Those portents gleaming, squawking, hopping, cocked head, taunting, “Sorrow! Sorrow!”; giving warning. ...

You looked at me and the love in your eyes faded And I realized it was this I was most afraid of. The swapping of fluids is only an ac...

Once upon a rum soaked night The boy with scars external Met the girl with scars internal. Her asbestos heart was set alight. The scars...

You tongue your way to my pleasure. Fist claws cotton. Breath escapes. The film plays on - Unwatched. Sunlight plays on your spin...

Just one more clown in his circus you are. Such a public mockery. You are a tool in his all-consuming self-love. Unwilling to face the o...

I blow chains of momentary beauty But they cannot capture the moments with you. Watching the world hurry past I saunter through thoughts...

As a teardrop I fall for you. Melancholic. Mesmerised. So far, so fast, so frail I fall. Shattered before I crushed. A stolen heartless...

This I drew this for my mother-in-law on the occasion of my in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary. It is an image of her on her wedding...

He says I'm not the me I was, That I have changed irreparably. He says we argue all the time. Ironically, I disagree. He says he lo...

After a glorious production the sun bows graciously behind the trees on my right to rapturous vesperturnal applause. To my left the bats ...

Even in the midst of night the distant wail of T-Rex's cousins reach me. And even when I am not right and fall and fail I let the le...

If love is love as love should be, then why does it enslave, not free? Love is a power - nay, a force that rivals all but gravity ...

Hey Gorgeous! How's it going? I had a word with Pepe Le Pious this eve as he was up to his usual tricks. needless to say he took it like...