PART TWO

LORD OF THE FLIES

For all that it was at its worst

And all that it wasn’t at its best

The memory of us is a flame smouldering

In the aftermath of a monsoon

A flickering spark waiting

For a new moon,

A mourning sun,

And a soul to ignite

The fire of my next big blaze.

“KINDLING” BY JEZZY WOLFE

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;

I lift my lids and all is born again.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

“MAD GIRL’S LOVE SONG” BY SYLVIA PLATH