CHILDREN OF COMPOST

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 2021

Transformation is hardcore -
seeping mass of cells carefully
salvaged; when you stop pleading
for a saviour, scavengers might
teach you how to lovingly bring
yourself out of being, how to savour a
change of state, change of flavour:

it’s hard to stay dead
and delicious for very long.

TRANSSUBSTATIATION

Oil on Canvas, 2020

The two extremes of love
Are either to be eaten
Or kept wild

Let me be my truest size
Your sacrifical deer
Your flaming lion

Your flanks, your teeth,
My insides turned
outside.