hjcm : Writing

Boarding up

Boarding up

A Poem by hjcm


I like it better this way just because it’s easier. No mistakes to make, no gains, no chance of accidental offence. That won&rsquo..
Women of the trees

Women of the trees

A Poem by hjcm


The car rasps as it turns out of the car park, and clutters off into the distance, its exhaust pipe choking. You with the seagull eyes..
A kiss

A kiss

A Poem by hjcm


A kiss renders all words spoken before foolish. It is infallible: a new world with new rules and new tastes. It extinguishes the mea..
Gathering

Gathering

A Poem by hjcm


Bits of glass bottles rolled upon the waves until smooth as small pebbles: these are little pieces of time, memories hazed to glorio..
Butterfly

Butterfly

A Poem by hjcm


She has bones like birds’; stepping into the stream of water and letting it all fall over her, she wishes for someone to comb her hair ..
Gutted

Gutted

A Poem by hjcm


Jiffy bags strewn on the bedspread gape emptiness. The theatre lighting hanging above haunts that voidsome room. Cold air and hearts flut..
Breathing to no one

Breathing to no one

A Poem by hjcm


A kiss on the cheek aftera night of coldness.She still feels that chilland it shudders through her limbsand films her eyes over with sea.Escape in the..
Smoke out of a window

Smoke out of a window

A Poem by hjcm


Air the room with a candleand the night's breeze.You like his companythough he's ten years too oldand you're ten years too cynicaland they wonderis sh..
Rainy lullaby Wednesday

Rainy lullaby Wednesday

A Poem by hjcm


Here again am I, beside the window,having beaten the rain at the ghost o'clock of the bus when I am the only soul to be carriedalong a drenched countr..
Commodity

Commodity

A Poem by hjcm


People stare at me for the way I dressthe size of my waistthe surge of my hips.I'm behind glassand they look inas if entitledto this zoo attraction.I'..