Jack Heslop : Writing

Hunger and Stasis

Hunger and Stasis

A Poem by Jack Heslop


Hunger and stasis gather on the porches of my heart. First there was childhood now old pining from a distant home I don't like visiting. It came and ..
Tyrant

Tyrant

A Poem by Jack Heslop


The tides are rushing forth to flow through a plughole in her breast. Memory and conscience spill down the blue fields of her blouse. Somewhere a ma..
The Void

The Void

A Poem by Jack Heslop


How do you describe dense black? What fancy metaphors for pain could I devise to make you feel what I've felt on and off of late? Maggots crawling fre..
Destruction and Creativeness

Destruction and Creativeness

A Poem by Jack Heslop


Shaving blades, colder than the distant moon, grey as an old woman's hair, do not dance like daffodils. The hollows of the subconscious where ..
Michelangelo's Mother

Michelangelo's Mother

A Poem by Jack Heslop


Mary is placid as rain. It will be, it will go, one day soon may be again. Returning to the first repose of a mother, newly spent, she holds her a..
Suffering

Suffering

A Poem by Jack Heslop


"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and th..
Surviving Childhood

Surviving Childhood

A Poem by Jack Heslop


Another death has been announced: schoolboy in New York. Killed himself on reaching home from a camping trip. More videos will now be made on survivin..
The Living Dead

The Living Dead

A Poem by Jack Heslop


How do we survive becoming accidents; bipeds of life split from the ether on attempting a return... We wanted to regress, click the button, sound the..