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Painlessness by avalyn

It seems it is time / for painlessness and a laugh / for lolling over the side of heaven’s hillside… / pitched towards the sea / where silver, cream and pewter / make love in strands. / I… 212 words

Ending by avalyn

My father lay about the branches of the tree after he died. / His spectral absence left a discolouration in the air. The sepia stain hung in / vaporous discomfit through the Catalpa tree. I saw a fu… 632 words

The Hadjii - excerpt. by avalyn

Qasim, Footna’s husband stammered. The pale woman with the others was a grilling in his groin and his friend – another slippery man as dark as the effulgent of his desire – sleuthed… 632 words

Balloon by avalyn

Red / and hanging on, / gnawing at the string / setting it loose / Tumbling in of things / through the warp / of glass, seeds and terror, / leaving / the white / chink, chink of regular lines / mil… 53 words

A Buddha Rune by avalyn

How is it that I am loved? / How is it that I am eaten up each night by Your hunger? / That You have put into my arms / a lover / a man / a beloved / a god / a priest with loving sacraments / his rob… 152 words

Somnambulist love by avalyn

You made me want to sleep forever / behind my eyelids / sockets / the blue-glass balls retracting light… / Only thought steps tiptoe / over the thin white pebbles / outside my door. / My tenderly bl… 70 words

there is a boat... by avalyn

there is a boat / that is a seed / that is the life of a bird…. / that is sanctuary / she is the fathomless life-raft of love 25 words