i wish

Is this desire? (P. J. Harvey)

I wish my deepest desires would not
stay
still underneath my skin

I wish they could move out
of those dark recesses
and explode
in all their fiery
flow

dead or alive

ballet-dance.com has recently published a feature article I wrote on Graham's legacy twenty years after she passed away, here is the link. It has been a difficult and exciting article to write!

whale talking - new series (6)

"The whale is dead! The whale is dead!",
some were shouting from afar...

Where was I?
Was I beside the whale?
Was I inside the whale?
Was I the whale?

I did not know,
I just knew they were coming
to collect my corpse...