For Vaughn on his 27th Birthday You gave me a palace in clouds, a JHB skyline dressed in mist and moonlight, dust-storms and thunder showers.…
neilcoppenSeptember 20, 2015
You left me with... 1.) A green piggy bank (in the shape of an elephant). Loot from one of your car-boot sale trawls. A relic…
neilcoppenJanuary 4, 2012
All this talk of beauty Brecht's stuffed donkey Actors in falsetto flailing about in three interminable acts of crisis. Artistic arsonists Setting mountains on fire…
neilcoppenOctober 11, 2011
On a hospital slab. Insides out, body parts in plastic bags, cotton wool taped over eyes. The anaesthetist reaches over and touches a braid of…
neilcoppenAugust 19, 2009
Beauty in my review mirror Squinting nonchalant into the sun Friday 5 o'clock traffic Head cocked in half thought Lips shaping the lyrics to some…
neilcoppenAugust 15, 2009
Slide open my bathroom window framing a far- off freeway. Clear sleep from crusty eyes. Three am. Suburbs still except for the sound of just…
neilcoppenJuly 23, 2009
If I could eradicate the myth What might that leave you with? I have my own less prohibitive but they are myths all the same…
neilcoppenJuly 21, 2009
Give me step ladders and terminaly ill light bulbs Blinking to the painful end Give methe silenced song of my grandmother's singer sewing machineYour afflictions…
neilcoppenJuly 19, 2009
Four years you sat in mom's closet. Behind the birthday soaps, hand creams and Christmas-card packs.In a closet In a packet In a box with…
neilcoppenNovember 18, 2008