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Brentley Frazer has been published in many of the world’s most prestigious literary magazines and anthologies. His book A Dark Samadhi was recently referred to as ‘a masterpiece’ in a review by Prat Magazine in Australia. More info at www.brentley.com

Dragging the chalk along an old wall it crumbled. Beyond a mouldy cupboard and in it secrets on hangers.

(Rusted parts of something in a glass of love-juice).

In the pocket of a tartan hunting jacket a week long list that begins:

     1. Hopeless/considerate:disguise.
     2. Record the couple screaming for an album (edit the bits about          being fussy).
     3. One backslash leads to another.
     4. Open the luminous wound and bleed sparkles into the sea.
     5. Scrawled in the dust the moth elegy begs touch us gently, we          may lose our shape if shaken

And then, what does the peeling star mean hanging in a tree? The sounds you make and the mouth that shapes them. Your tongue will be the weapon…

A boy running drops a paper cup of worms, many birds observe the soft pink bodies as they turn to mud as he stomps them.