i loved you once –
and in love, the heart is in a tizzy...

Honeyed words pour out in a continuous
stream onto your collar bones, the horizon...

winter begets silence as the sparrows
struggle for warmth, the slowly-dying...

I know you tuck away clippings
of chrysanthemums before...

my love,
when y/our world seems barren...

you are to my poetry like the stars
are to infinity. the verses that blossom...

Shall we feast on the carousel of words that
I will prepare in your honour, tonight...

we’ve run out of the primordial –
stalling stars, spinning chaotically...

colliding ideologies
contradict the two of us...

an unsolved puzzle –
the words escape me...

you inhabit me. every breath taken is drawn to the...
you florally scent the air, and the irony is not...

the cries of the lark do me in,
carrying with it – the eastern winds...