Creative Writing

Paarl Sketches

Dessiclip rust-dustScratching fronds a-jambed ascentTo geo-flat stepp Aguiginate cutVeined florid droogness descentIncising said-meant Groon-boon petalled slinkDarting pit-a-pat on solTo secret shaden

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Kirstenbosch Sketches

Floraginal inMatter of vertacularSwish-swash footedness Flankèd muchly ofSongtress aviformulousNatters in arbor Lain-laid-love-lie onDownward montane patch-in-grownWith wide-eye far-view Plume hapt-scraping barkPigmented wit adam eauSubtending blank blat Floss gris drown atopClip-cloppy berg cascaderTo rock-a-boom roots

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Cat Lullaby

shock white shadow, rests his paws on purest snow, splayed across the eggshell floor, with two blue daggers sheathed by lids, closed by half to keep his gaze, and i reach out behind his ears, across his back down to his plume, gently curled around his feet. i feel the hum contentest creature, now the…

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The Hunt

pad left right (krck) swipe (mrrrp?) paw left right dip … touch … brush … left right stare (sniff) wait to see hear touch tilt head (lean in) lunge feint pad swipe (spit) round and round (dart) up down (meep?) claw gnash back (brrr) tilt to back at back round (swish tail) and round left…

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Devotion in the absence of Stars

i crave the Stars mimicking the tears i cannot see i left Her not by choice though i have forgotten many of Her subtleties which are in the waning Moon which silently shouts yet refuses to answer except as i phase as She feasts on my own carrion and asks me to lose in affirmation…

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Threnody for Web 1.0

“And where does the newborn go from here?” what are the possibilities for Pregnancy “And” Birth if the newborn can depart and deconstruct if the Coitus against the meeting of two {three, four, five, n, n+1} rather “And” a third body {1 + 1 = 3i} the third “And” body which sends the newborn on…

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an email connecting two fellow musical Autists

Let this email be a refutation of the normative psychology of Autism. Let the etymology of Autism — to be within one’s self — be sundered where this email touches our fleshes across space-time-matterings. Our solipsisms touch through our heterogeneous experiences; we recognize a need for a language which opens out our interior, yet stops…

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