From Strains


GESTURE
waving her muddy jacket frantically around and around her head she painfully shuffles onward
arms pumping slowly to and fro he spins round claps his hands and shakes his head wildly
head trembling as his thumb makes stirring movements and then hitchhiking gestures at no one
she crouches down as she throws up her fists and then lurches forward to pummel the wall again

BARCLAYS BANK ACCOUNT
White eagle overhead screeches over its shoulder stretching talons and wings. Splayed out aching flaking palms explore turquoise perspex smashed and shattered showing handfuls of dust fluff gathered up around fluorescent wiring with stains running dripping down graffiti. Wrinkled flatness as both feet plunge into inside prickling spiralling round then heaving blood seeps into mould pores swallowing up gobbles clumps moulded absorbed and enclosed



WALL STORY
Aching flaking wrists explore yellow greenish blisters and a dust-filled elastic cobweb finding the cracking crevices tugging and tearing away all the spreading seepings whilst both trembling hands start to destroy fistfuls of substance plainness disjoints leg after elbow wound soaks away dirty dissolving disappearing interior transforming into it shrivelling up the tingles of a stopped torso paralysed and grown heavy with construction.