25 May

Girl

A girl died in Cape Town this morning. The news came on the radio while I was sitting in the taxi from Pimville on my way to campus. I wasn’t really following the stories but that one caught my attention. There are a lot of stories like hers making the news lately. By my...
24 May

Home

There are palaces I love going back to and this might be one of them. This small, dilapidated ruin of mine is where I like to come to make a sanctuary. These walls were once high and cathedral, easing out at the clouds with a certain grandeur to their stature. We once had a...
17 May

In My Days

I want my life to feel like an Iron & Wine song. Existing somewhere in between the realm of dreams and the real world.  Where flowers sing into the ears of shepherd’s dogs and beasts offer their love gently with their arms wrapped around the sun during a forgettable sunset that they alone choose...
10 May

Autumn Roses

I remember monkeys in the backyard  Throwing stones at the bars protecting the glass on my windows on a chilly autumn morning as the sun creeps gently through the curtains of my bedroom and a knock on the door rouses me to say I will find my breakfast in the kitchen with hot water...
07 May

Fuck being Friends

You’ve been on my mind Maybe I’m obsessive. Crazy about all in. All or nothing. Only in it to win it. So life brings it on. Maybe to teach me to slow my roll. Take it easy. Unfortunately nothing has been easy with you. Nothing has been slow. Caught up in conflicting feelings Oh...
03 May

God’s Window

It began in the summer. The newborn sun’s rays shining through the glass at the edge of a young garden. The moon watching while the skies wept and floods swept the saturated surface clean of sun. An autumn morning with a saviour bearing a cross upon his back and later resting his bloodied body...