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“There was something unchecked and desperate in the way that I was using what I called ‘love.’ The high of being chosen against the growing fear and danger of the lover finding someone new. There was an emptiness in the lover that I
Oh I wish that how I wish that in the same way that people go to yoga and breathwork and pottery classes that there could be classes on how to love on others and keep friendships sinewy and robust and exciting, classes on how to get further with it
The tower never manages to pierce the sky, which is lilac-silver, peaches, mist, and always deserving of a mention in this longer, desperate month. Summer is on the way. We must get happy, or else. . Sometimes, when I'm just about ready to fall
🌳💚🪷🫦 WE’LL BE FINE. I know that I love you. You go walking every morning beneath the trees when much of the city is sleeping and preparing for more of the same; walls, information, terror, doubt. You tell me that the sky is on a kind of
At the beginning of the year I teased limited MEETINGS, a new feature on my Substack newsletter where you can book one-to-one online time with me to talk art, writing, poetry or whatever comes to us. I was only going to do this for my birthday month
This poem is in response to a poem by a woman in which her (lover?) told her that all she needed to do to be Perfect was to be Different, and all she needed to do to be Loved Better was to Be Better. (See how they get you?) They tell you you're A
When I flew into London at the start of the month I was suddenly hit by the sobering reality that I hadn’t performed here since 2019 - and then the thing that stopped the world happened, and everything was altered. Anyway, this is more about th
🤍 a note about language, originally found on my Substack, which you can find you-know-where. Text: You’d better watch what you are saying. The things that you are saying are changing your life. The things that you are saying are birthing th