3 Jun 2014

More poems published

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11 Apr 2014

Bone Orchard Poetry: Reuben Woolley

Bone Orchard Poetry: Reuben Woolley: echometry there is distance between me and me I can't see my shadow the echo stares back silent unblinking I don't measure...

30 Mar 2014

Bone Orchard Poetry: Reuben Woolley

Bone Orchard Poetry: Reuben Woolley: two no more straitjackets   my head is overloaded and i can’t understand what they say it’s all tripos and trappers that...

15 Nov 2013

That Boy

That boy,
remember.
Not quite right - face
a little flatter, walk
a little odder, lips
a little wetter.

He walks around
the moving obstacles
on their way to work 
or class. That boy,
remember.
I can't
see him.

13 Nov 2013

Being Ordinary

                                                                                     i.m. Harvey Sacks


Oh you've got someone to talk to all right,
parents, brother, sister, cousins and wife,
but you know what they'd say:
Oh John, you're so funny.
Oh. My God. Don't say things like that.
Oh grow a pair, will you?

And you're not going to talk to the guy in the pub
who's complaining about his kids and their cats
and the state of this nation. And the experts
are expensive and what would you say?
They'd think you were crazy and lock you away.

So you don't
talk.
So you fly.
Fly far away,
dying to be normal,
a direct journey to the last stop,
splattered and battered outside the chippie.

Got his feet on the ground now!
Oh he were a silent one.
It's always the quiet ones.
But he were a good lad
really.