James has had poems published in Amberflora, The Hythe, and Tentacular (among other places). His preoccupations include ecology, obscurity, and early modern poetry. By day, he works as a teacher at an SEMH school.
from Piddock
juvenile
a
hermit for a /
(are you feeling
errant, my
braggart-whole
& deep-dish
living the /
(dream, novice
stepping up /
out & after all, a
scetis-proxy /
foray into
that you call /
burrowed down
in ‘hello
questing’
b
from your
drilled-out to a
(slow &
cloistered panic:
cist for our
(furled ~ interred, our
& alle these werkes
mysticke /
barely grazing
the bedrock’s
gouged &
humpback surface /
going foot-first in:
these raw
spaces
mantle
a
curl a
lip round curdle /
(lip my
long puck
of your
(herein conjured
mineral bold as
skewed & /
shambles round your
(stockade, prepper
stretched
quid
drumming a
surely /
(muscle gritted
parsed where
clamps
seistow a—
b
how about
coddled nouns
brinked
a fibre hold /
sarco-everything up in
trundle of
grasp mantle
preterite kiss where
affixes
before & inside
shell or
mirror-backing—
the strained cud /
congealed
architect
