birksy

"Fit me in your suitcase, I curl and crawl so small, they wouldn't ever see, and when you're there I would whisper, come play with me, howling winds will leave us be. But when I unfold, I will show yo..."

"Let me do your shoes up, place the coat on your shoulders just right, walk you slowly to the door, step out with you, tonight. Don't have to go somewhere nice, round the block would be fine, or furthe..."

"Here's my name, I'll let you keep it, wrap it up, keep it for a time when no-one's there, then unfold it, say it, believe that I can hear each syllable as you speak. Then I'll say yours, too, don't kn..."

"Snagged on my jacket, can't let you go, hooks just work one way, have to see where we both go. Gonna pull against me, might just rip apart, better do it slowly, that way might just save my heart. Pe..."

"Got a hunger inside of me, ate some food, but it's still there, ate some more, but it's still there, slept all night, but it's still there. And this hunger inside of me, this morning it spoke to me, ..."

"My lucky number is your shoe size, what more proof do you need? Unprecedented coincidence, you surely must agree? Then there's our initials, perfectly aligned within the stars, can't wait till our fi..."

"On the ledge again, been here before, haven’t I? Got a bandage on my toes from all the times they’ve been stepped on, a bandage round my mouth, from all the things I could’ve said, and a bandage acros..."

"From the heart she holds him close, feels his mouth upon her nipple, he suckles her, needs all of her, and somehow she is different, has unexpectedly become more than she thought could exist. What a t..."

"Feeling vulnerable, we seek the reassurance, ask the questions that can only be answered one way, we kid ourselves of the feelings with endangered eyes. And when the camera’s go, when we’re all left ..."

"The angels sleep, the devils play, and us humans love and hate, it’s all so simple, these dreadful days elongate, and become the worst of times. If I could pray, I would, but I may summon the wrong so..."

"Focus, I may not be here, but you’ll still see my eyes behind the words, my thoughts behind the lines, my soul within the poem. Focus, I may not be here, but a piece of me will forever be before you. ..."

"So I find myself less of an ornament than before, but just as breakable, fragility’s not a quality that is lost with age. I find myself a broad shelf, best for the spread, for the wait I’ll endure, mi..."

"I am me again, thirteen lines of rhyme and reason, then up I get, wake the boys, and become their father, a mother’s son, a brother’s brother, a wife’s disappointment, but right now, none of that matt..."

"Stand behind the yellow line, any closer you may get hurt, no guarantees with me anymore, my best may not be good enough. And some days the line is far away, I walk alone within my circle, yet on othe..."

"Wondered why it hadn’t moved, for weeks it was sat there, but from the other seats, I couldn’t see the whole story, thought it was just its winter break. Today was different, though, the sun gave its ..."

"What’s there to be king for? I wouldn’t rush back, sin, like the litter around me, is profligate, indiscriminate, ankle high and stinks of sewage, I can’t walk for there is nowhere to go to, no oasis ..."

"Sat down on a hill, valley below me, grass above me, and where that stops the sky prevails in blue, breathe in the crispness, breathe out the pollution, I am so unnecessary, now. Written February 18th..."

"My little lads, are all I know, are all I can touch, are all I can hug, they are the everything I live for, I love for, what will I do without them? I entrust them to the person I trust most, she will..."

"Ever felt watched? The monkey on the mantelpiece has me in his eye, he never moves, doesn’t even judge, he’s a good monkey to have around. I smile at him, he holds my gaze, simply stares without embar..."

"Feel a bit let down, thought friends would help me out, thought family wouldn’t think twice, I wouldn’t have thought twice, yet I’ve been let down, and it quite strips away the outside layers, leaves ..."

"The newly made graves are all in a row, stark clean against the grey skies, they look quite innocent one next to another, ready for whoever flirts with evident danger, the newly made graves, are all i..."

"Absolute dedication, he cannot be faltered, he might be asleep, with both his eyes open, if it were not for the hand, that every so often turns the next page, then falls in his lap. He’s reached the l..."

"The pen isn’t hers, it’s a gift that he took, from a hotel that he stayed in, in the centre of town, and the papers not hers, it came from the stationary, he took it last Tuesday afternoon. The ring t..."

"Why look like a thug, when you have a smile of an angel, makes so little sense to hide it away, put the hood down, get some sun on your skin, and show us your smile, again. Written February 19th, 2002..."

"White on a chalkboard, exclamation from an unknown night, can’t see what it says, can’t read the emotions. But the rain does its job, almost gone while I watch, nature’s a wonderful girl. White on a ..."

"On the toe is where it starts, the feeling of me, then slowly, creeping upward, negotiating places too sweet to dwell upon, till, at last, I have her heart, her mind, and there the joining is near com..."

"He has fascination written on his hand and in his heart, he hopes it's enough. This biro tattoo, within this world, he holds his hands tight, won't let the rain or the sunlight take it off; it's his w..."

"My friend, the moon, I have known him all my life, he is regular, dependable, beautiful, if he could answer me, what would he say, what could possibly be the answer to now? I am pulled and pushed like..."

"Just me in my clothes, no frills, no thrills, just a young english lad, with mistakes in his eyes, and hurt in his bones. Just me in my clothes and the clothes need a wash, 'spect I need one too, will..."

"Missed by miles, I've missed by miles, missed you by miles, by miles we've missed each other. Written February 20th, 2002 © on Feb 20 2002 07:08 AM PST, Simon Birks   0 • 1"

"This slow puncture, how long have I had it? Breathing out seems so easy, breathing in a little worse. There's no fingers that can block it, it's a dam of a trickle, gonna bring me down all the way. So..."

"If I walk along, look to the sky and see a bird, I'd say, 'there's a bird.' but if I saw you, I'd say nothing just try and make sure you saw me, try and make you smile, even if you didn't want to. If ..."

"Reflecting off the cover, another shadow of me, another discolouration, can't seem to be bright, don't seem to glow now, so the lights go down, and I'm alone, a person, now not a person, instead a bod..."

"Strike me once, strike me twice, folded patterns what do you see? Clouded dreams, bitter nightmares, and the others, one two three. No more manners, shut me up, have no time to be found out, strike m..."

"Little moth, little moth, don't eat a piece of me, I'm only held together by these little threads you see. Leave me be, leave me be, eat a bit of him instead, save me for another day, I'll try and se..."

"Come play a tune, run your hands on my body, make me moan and sigh to your soft melodies, I need your touch to raise me up, create the crescendo within these bodies, and scream to the way it could be...."

"Enough of this wait, it drives me insane, I have to be there, have to say something. Come give me a chance, I'm only just I, I'll beg if you want, and if that's not enough, then throw me away, but it'..."

"Your hand stretches out, and I take it, follow lines of symmetry, a movement towards, each holds the others nape, smile and look the length of our bodies, my thoughts in tune with yours, and the back ..."

"I've always been silent, the quiet one, though my thoughts, are, like yours, so loud. Do you not see the scream? I've kept my thoughts close, don't want to be too conspicuous. I fear there's not en..."

"The first poem, she will be in it, and then the others, scripted one after the other, she will be in them, too. Cannot stop my hands from speaking her, cannot quash my mind from thinking her, she is ..."

"Nothing very optional any more, you are no added extra, now the necessity, the part that makes me walk to work, or smell a rose, or laugh at a joke, if not for you, I could not do it, I would simply s..."

"A little tickle here, but I'm not ticklish anymore, hold my face straight as a line, let the crooked steal behind let me turn my face and cry forever you should be mine, but they can't hear, my despai..."

"Can you think of me, wherever you are now, pause for thought, and let me in, for I feel forever near, a constant thought companion. I have no real want for thoughts, just a need for you, so, pause fo..."

"Let me in the spare lamp box, want to know what its locked door hides, for there is no light that those lamps could be spare for. There's a reason for everything, that can only be the truth, but I se..."

"They talk about ceiling tiles, and in truth, it all goes over my head, I sit here just wondering what it'd be like to interlace my hand in yours, feel the grip on my fingers that I've felt on my heart..."

"Good morning? Yes, another one, they're all this good just lately. I awoke and saw a different world, inside, a very different man. I will ask of you to walk with me, I shall describe exactly what I s..."

"There's nothing to it, if I dropped it, it'd never hit the ground, instead float away, beyond my reach and maybe yours. Such substance and yet so fragile, this is what we juggle day by day, a subtle ..."

"In my little box file, sits three hundred and fifteen cards, and each one has a little word for you. No matter how I write them, eyes shut, half cut, within delicate little mittens, they are all for y..."

"Pardon me, if I don't doff my cap, I am but a man, and one of little patience, too. I come and go, but have so much to do that to dwell long here would be a precious waste of time, besides, I am lost ..."

"A man and his downfall, are easily found, he sits beneath it, all sad, full of woe, but that is just the surface, as we all know, those men don't really feel, they just look after number one, watch th..."

"The greasepaint saint, sits with lights above his head, can't understand where the audience went, just cries in hands that have seen better days, in suits that have seen better hearts, he cries into a..."

"I've collected every feather I've seen on the ground sleep so soft, you'd never know those feathers are sticking into me, keep changing the sheets, but I just bleed more. And with the blood I write th..."

"I've sliced the cake, got the eighth part of a circle, can't do what I want to do, can't eat it in front of you. And a little fizzy orange, eighth part of a can, I hear it's effervescence calling me, ..."

"So, the small crane can only look up, its peers are far above it, and when the wind blows, he feels the resistance this brings. And from the park I measure cranes, my thumb bent towards the grubby sky..."

"Look in the gap, but please don't sneeze, the structure in the cell will fall if you let them know. Perhaps when you look away, the ghost will remain in your eyes, these people with the strangest live..."

"My foot struck the cowbell, and alone in the field, I saw the debris and stared. Kicking a tune of metal, the Spring's not come again, and we're left with Autumn's rot. So I took a day, piled the bell..."

"She's a paper girl, ain't seen it before, and I don't know where she goes, before she's back again. Haven't asked her a dot, but she questions what I know, have to read a tabloid for her fill. And t..."

"I hold the stare of a wooden cat, but he wins the war, he knows I'm easily melted, can tell what sort of man I am. And the reflection, he thinks I'm nothing, doesn't catch my eye, he's far too afraid ..."

"She looked, but AWOL he'd gone, arsehole had left, and while she waved a finger, she was as scared as hell. This is just the biggest world, and to face it on her own, she curls up tight and lets the s..."

"On the back of my hand, tiny crystals form when I think of you, and I save them up, they make my tea so sweet, and not a single calorie, too. And if you looked hard, brought a microscope so I could se..."