Monthly Archives: November 2014

~ ~ #Poem dole-ville ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/poem-dole-ville/ * the air is skank with innocence Tibetan meditation gangrene wallpaper disinfectant crumbly carpet has bean-bags satinette cushions ketchupy plates bitter chips newspaper sutra holy, holy, holy shoddy shoes read … Continue reading →

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 233 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/todays-short-poem-233/ * In the old bar in Melchtal we played the jukebox Gates of Eden over and over One night men sang to us and I slipped a souvenir … Continue reading →

~ ~ #Poem trawler ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/poem-trawler/ * I was taken out at night with the trawler fishermen and we dragged up from the ocean bed a net-full of less-familiar lifeforms – not fit for your plate … Continue reading →

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 232 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/todays-short-poem-232/ * whatever it is that holds the sky together got ripped open and the expected deluge was more of a rebirth -a heaviness from the ground upwards- breaking … Continue reading →

~ ~ #Poem Towpath ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/poem-towpath/ * The canal-side café @ Goytre Wharf is now an Italian restaurant their coffee @ £1.50 energises my legs for another hour of walking but then the next three miles … Continue reading →

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 231 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/todays-short-poem-231/ * Waffle These last five years, you know, that I know, you’ve been playing me like a metal axe. I tuned myself to an open chord just so … Continue reading →

~ ~ #Poem Newgale ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/poem-newgale/ * Clouds follow us. Solemn oil tankers turn slowly in a bay the size of London. Masses of sunlight sparkles on the water; angel-light. Sometimes the wind gets my neck; … Continue reading →

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 230 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/todays-short-poem-230/ * You love like a flashflood like spring like need I hunger like I never tasted you Get hit by moments of you Love you like flower fog … Continue reading →

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 229 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/todays-short-poem-229/ * From the Back (after Earnest Hemingway) Very small bats and swallows look for mountains somewhat crazy over the down good water at the edge moderately clean on … Continue reading →