April 2012
4 posts
Mother
Early this year I was asked to contribute some poems to a screenplay for an upcoming feature entitled Mother. This is a non complete list of poems written for the project. I had intended to write about the evolution that occurred throughout the collaboration but I feel the poems can pretty much tell the story themselves.
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I clung to you; your meagre, scant frame
Jutting shoulders from which...
The Vision (Jesus of Possil)
I died, I was resurrected
I came back
To walk the holy streets of Possilpark
I left my father’s right hand
My own personal seat
To spread the word from a bedsit on Saracen Street
But I’ve had nothing but hassle
Since I returned to this mortal realm
In the age of the iphone
My miracles seem to underwhelm
I walked on water
Right across the Clyde
I multiplied the battered...
The Morning After
It had been a week of unknown ceilings, and yours was the last.
I woke up disorientated, dehydrated and dishevelled. I slowly familiarised myself with my surroundings. The sun streaked the walls with amber rectangles through your blinds. I had been here before – but never in this light. My hungover head raged in neglect as I became aware of the shit sitting obtrusively in my bowels.
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