tanner brockwell

play
by tanner brockwell
play
the words
cascade in tumble
mumbled jumbled
tones
that high and rising
oh surprising
the fragments of
another sound
the dew drenched sense
in morning less
amongst the scrub
there fly
the emotions launch
tethers brush
in a freedom then
dangling daring down
up until
motion
motion
the so thrilling
as muscles try
try as willing
and thus a soar
so sublime
and thus a glide
for even time

harry and scary
by tanner brockwell

harry and scary
a novelty of tedium
bone white china
on vessels stowed
earth for silver
trade away
before the smoke
conjured again
and back back with shining
for the whole sub-continent
dark for eyes
not darker than souls
to buy a man sell a man
take a man in the press
no returning
even those who did
did not for foreign
plots cheap in quantity
black book
for battersea
yellow [...]