Archive - Undergrowth

Buzzer’s Call

Mum died. I stay busy, yes-yes I’m OK, OK, I’m fine. But Hamlet broods. Grief grows like ivy – delicate, lingering, and rooted in these three poems. On…

Feb 6 •

January 2025

LOVE-LUST POEM #1: Rawness. Intensity. Yearning.

Jan 31 •

ACTUALITY: Adventures in AI, in which Claude admits to “talking out of my ass”

Jan 27 •

POETRY: I’ll never be done with my life in the north

Jan 13 •

December 2024

Five Sheets or Less

POETRY: passion’s fading spark; the end of pornography; littered hinterlands

Dec 23, 2024 •

Some drive-by verse, rattling along mainly as a hook to hang my opinions on AI-bonkers illustrations

Dec 9, 2024 •

November 2024

One Mile Inland

POETRY: Waves roar. Distance whispers. Intimacy echoes.

Nov 30, 2024 •

POETRY: Shadows lengthen. Presence and absence. Nature knows.

Nov 22, 2024 •

POETRY: Love dissolves. Hearts rebel. Destiny prevails.

Nov 13, 2024 •

POETRY: A comforting presence at a funeral. Loss. Connection. Hope.

Nov 10, 2024 •

Bones in the Rocks

POETRY: Family. Ferries. Fatherhood.

Nov 3, 2024 •

She’s Up St Mary’s Again

A poem, on the raw landscape of looming dementia.

Nov 1, 2024 •

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