Poems

• In Mrs Tilschers class the main themes are innocence, change, life transitions, growing up and adolescence
• war photographer links to the way my mother speaks(change), originally(change and isolation), in mrs tilchers class(change), mrs midas(conflict, change and isolation) and valentine(conflict and isolation)
• In his dark room he is finally alone
• spools of suffering
• ordered rows
• a strangers features start to twist before his eyes
• a half formed ghost
• eyeballs prick with tears
• a hundred agonies
• they do not care
• not a red rose or a satin heart
• i give you an onion
• careful undressing of love
• moon wrapped in brown paper
• wobbling photo of grief
• Not a cute card or kissogram
• the city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms
• where we didnt live anymore
• a blind toy
• All childhood is emigration
• where no one you know stays
• your accent wrong
• shouting words you dont understand
• my parents anxiety stirred like a loose tooth
• a skelf of shame
• my tongue shedding its skin like a snake
• sounding just like the rest
• where do you come from stangers ask?

  Originally? And I hesitate
• under the shallows of my breath
• restful shapes moving
• the day and ever. the day and ever
• too blue swapped for a cool grey
• what like is it
• nothing is silent. nothing is not silent
• i am happy and sad like a child
• I am homesick, free, in love with the way my mother speaks
• skittle of milk
• chalky pyramids rubbed to dust
• the laugh of a bell swung by a running child
• enthralling books