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​Watching Phaedra at the National Theatre



We return to a relationship         
            with concrete
    pressed low             light suffocating
a refuge     
    for the white haired wobblers         we will become


distant words                
    bleach            
        the darkness        speech     ricochets    
in the shining glass            a family swims        


secrets & yearning    
        held rigid beneath               babble    
crafted behaviour        carved for survival
the past spills     desire spills        stories crack

too many sons                are lost
        in lusts    reddening maelstrom of meaning
cruelty & longing        swirling        dangerous dance partners    
        dark sweat            obscures the eyes


the glass holds
        as flesh splinters        throats would rather be cut
than carry            the ache    of abandonment
when love has gone        
        we must    
                        go with it






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  • Home
  • Blog
  • POETRY
    • Three Poems from Three Years
    • Eve
    • Via Dolorosa
    • Unfolding
    • Street Scene
    • a disappearing
    • Said and done
    • Ingres and Delacroix share a coffee
    • If you follow the silk road
    • n.b. for Barney
    • Who Can Erase The Traces?
  • Theatre
    • Aching Parts
    • Mooring
    • The Right Kind of Violence
    • Vex
    • Take me to where the arrows no longer fall
    • Yellow Fever
    • Own Goal
    • Just Like Flies
    • Snap
    • Home
  • Fictions
    • Gross
    • The 7.22
    • For Those Who Trespass
    • Karaoke
    • We Only Notice When It's Gone
    • This is a story that I am going to make a story out of
    • Les Anglais en Vacances
    • She
    • La Comedie Humaine
  • LIVEWORKS
    • After Bacchae at the National Theatree
    • After Nye at the National Theatre
    • Watching Coriolanus at the National Theatre
    • Watching Phaedra at the National Theatre
    • Notes from a wanderer
  • News
  • Contact