Grave diggers
Opening up an old grave
Second burial
© Rachel Green October 2026
Feel Safe
Rusted machete
Brushed off and varnished
A sweep of acrylic
And some lettering in gold
The story of an object
In thirty words or less
© Rachel Green October 2026
windy bin day
the garden full of rubbish
next door's
© Rachel Green October 2026
Tiny Demons
small paintings
on pieces of rubbish
picked up on the street.
These are the things I feel
as I creep through the passion
of each passing day.
Encapsulated turbulence
masking internal breakdowns
offset by coping mechanisms
of societal masks
© Rachel Green October 2026
pouring rain
disintegrating cardboard boxes
Amazon deliveries
© Rachel Green October 2026
Price of Admission
mummified
in latex and tar
angelic wings blackened
by the passing years
frozen in the simple act
of masturbation
her fingers
still inside
© Rachel Green October 2026
wild and windy
stripping off the leaves
naked sycamores
© Rachel Green October 2026
On the Purchase of a Hat
I bought a hat today.
A woolly hat to save my ears
from being cold.
I'm old
and people smile at me
because I skip and dance along the street
and they think perhaps the village fool
has been released just for a day
and maybe it's the hat
and maybe it's the wide-eyed smile
and maybe it's the wishing of a happy day.
© Rachel Green October 2026
kitchen clock
with egg on its face
they've boiled dry
© Rachel Green October 2026
Attempting to be Cheerful (V)
bank account
reaches negative numbers
long before the month runs out
but I have apples
and baked beans
and more dog food
than the month has days remaining.
I have somewhere to live
and love given freely
and the internet is paid for
All we really need is time to write
and time to create
and dogs to keep me warm
© Rachel Green October 2026
trichromatic palette
distributed to wet paper
sudden nebula
© Rachel Green October 2026
Attempting to be Cheerful (IV)
the weight
of two tiny bibles
is almost too much to bear;
all that guilt and suffering
in the name of one book
written centuries ago.
perhaps they'll improve
with a little colour added.
© Rachel Green October 2026
pavement cake
still in shop wrappings
of course I ate it
© Rachel Green October 2026
Attempting to be Cheerful (III)
deep frames are a happy find, stuffed
deep at the back of a charity shop shelf
which involves moving teddy bears
and assorted Christmas clutter to extract
to discover all three are four pounds
All that's needed now is to carry them home
and paint some objects to put inside them.
purity
the obscurity of paintings
in simple frames
© Rachel Green October 2026
