Augur I took part of your diamond mind worked to be so unobtrusive sold my back down Hackney Wick fought back fears the kind that stick steal in under quiet dark make a man a smaller thing climbed upon your mantle shook, broke our reason took your love open all your windows, Sunday made a day for restless hearts good excuse for corner-bound souls that need but hate to lie down J. x

longshore drift there are children picking through our wreckage shattered bottle broken stone which glow green/blue in cool cupped hands light haunting at their faces home: a memory if ever that far fattened crows fall feast upon each dream we never dreamt your beach where father kept his severed finger ever pointing out the wave that cave where once she fell face first her body making whole a broken part of timeless coast measured out in bloodless lips for tiny kisses crisp pressed dress washing through an endless tide pattern part of longshore drift cleft holes in which young hermits hide J. x

two forms on the bridge and what would happen then? inquired the taller of two forms You would die without me, Sai I could not die without you childe I would wander o'er this world unto an ending of all things now eyes up hand on hammer lest we ride into the thin J. x

Amy She so Deft of Hand for all that she was worth and hard Amy's finger slipped the guard night fell; her guns that blazed the dark threw shattered stars a new day rose, the sun a fire supernova in their hearts young slinger in the morning dirt J. x ##acrosticchallenge

Sunside how bright seemed their starfall fell not long the night before we sat with yesterday's broadsheets Telegraph and breakfast sweet, salty French toast muffins sausage and pork joint I wondered never for the first if #life out there goes on while ours sits day on day blue skies and work or pauses shall stir come ancient dark our Earth half lit to Sunside turned J. x