enough blue
washing underwear in the sink
busy cat
© Rachel Green May 2026
Homage du Kiefer
gestational tonality
coaxed from the surface of the canvas
memories of winters past
in allusions of splendour
from the minarets of prayer towers;
sediments of yesterday's pigments
dredged up by river barges
and set out under a Tuscany sun.
© Rachel Green May 2026
market day
trying to get the dogs
not to poop
© Rachel Green May 2026
Herodotus, Reclaimed
seven years apart
palette and book
with the addition of wings.
An impossible flight
in a labyrinth of random signs
brings arbitrary interpretations.
intense and profane
an autonomous library, integrated
within petrified bodies.
The hollow beds of reeds
immutable as fractured women
singing, dancing, after burning houses.
© Rachel Green May 2026
French radio
through early opened shutters
House Martens
© Rachel Green May 2026
Interior in Paddington
always we are surprised
by the Bulldog in the Burlington Arcade.
Unknown
outside the gentleman's outfitters
a dapper gentleman
sporting a white fedora
dusted by soot and smog--
a prisoner to a sense of outré chic
left a little too far behind
when his father was still a young man
and standing by the dying leaves
of an indoor palm.
© Rachel Green May 2026
morning brightness
a rack of summer flowers
at L'Etabli
© Rachel Green May 2026
Fecundity in Decomposition
his spine, reticulated
with time-worn crevices
and age-shrunken skin, and as ,
rises like a triumphal arch
pulling with it ribs and lungs
distorting the cavity beneath
and bringing the chest into concavity.
He adapts his bed,
sleeping almost upright,
cut foam to support pencil-thin bones
his breath dragged through an open mouth
with the rattle of death
forever lurking at the edge.
Around him, shadows beckon
and the ghost of his long-dead brother
smiles as he holds out one hand,
a warm welcome for an old soul
destined for the flames.
© Rachel Green May 2026
happy birthday:
hope your life is as good as mine,
girl I once dated
© Rachel Green May 2026
Darlington Crazy
plucked out
more sober
still progressive
an inventive gardener
with a singular style;
a horse carved from sandstone;
their mask-like faces
indifferent and sly,
glimpsed on the street
or neurotic buses
a single-minded commitment
in linear description.
© Rachel Green May 2026
vogue model
walking casually along
normal French gentleman
© Rachel Green May 2026
Elizabeth Frink
expressions of trauma
an unknown political prisoner
and the Tate Bird
the sprit of conquest
in animal and man.
Dead cat, dead rabbit, dead hen;
twisted in hunger and suffering
the bone cathedrals of terror
and tangled figures
tumbling through foreign skies.
© Rachel Green May 2026
"what time is it?"
pigeons asking questions
"what time is it?"
© Rachel Green May 2026
Awaiting Midnight
red coloured earth
mixed with rabbit-skin glue
and river water;
black earth pigment,
charcoal and soot;
smeared onto ancient paper
recovered from hoarded houses;
shredded and pressed
dried under the morning sun.
© Rachel Green May 2026
