3 January 2011
12 April 2025
original poem included background image

all downhill

freeze dried
embryos
in Vallombrosa

could be
embers…
d’you want to view

the prequel?
she stood
among aliens

sipping
bubbly
nervously

soon
an unthinkable
thing

castigated her
for not
fulfilling

her part
of the bargain, of
course

she had
not thought through
the consequences

of touching, one
her friends
warned her

these things
that stand like
trees

and talk like
movies
smell like

soap
are not
to be

trusted
you must not
touch