Sylvie Hill

Caramel Two heads at a table Bus on the old streets go by in New Edinburgh Do you see them in living rooms lit for dinner Soft studio lighting golden, like caramel As if it was vapour? I am poor – I do not live In an architecturally beautiful Neighbourhood Where the brick facades And […]

ALL MY LIFE Nothing gold can stay But a diamond lasts forever? We’re diamonds, sort of. Made of materials from shooting stars that exploded in a galaxy afar. Spun about to make our Earth And now we have a place to hang. Nothing gold can stay But a diamond lasts forever is the cliché They […]

This Is What Guys Have Done When you make excuses to not get to yoga Cause your pedicure’s old, heels cracking, He lifts your legs, and creams your feet: This is what guys have done. When you couldn’t find anything to wear For the dinner party with his bosses He takes you to your closet […]

The Gentle Art of Ignoring On your marks! Get set! Ready? GO! Race to ignore the traffic sounds Beneath, in the streets and reach toward The landscape beyond, fight to see trees Or squint and see the heritage houses covered in ivy! It is not a gentle art to “ignore”: It is VIOLENT and takes […]

I Have No Dreams For Sale (Only For Sharing) No family? No baby? 40? Easy: no one stood by me. In my family, not my Father Sister, judges; ignored by Mother I’m supposed to Love you? Why bother… Fixations? Preoccupations? Yes! Easy: indeed, I was obsessed. Thought the Muses hotter Liked how I profited I’m […]

The Real Villain I say one funny thing about a pick-up line He gets mad, says: “I don’t tell you mine!” In person, I keep it platonic. He spends the time telling me how he likes it. I post news of having published a book of sexy stories He starts Tweeting that I must be […]

Annexed* That’s right: hide that bald man’s eyes! Prepare to take him away now: He’s the culprit but don’t tell anyone his name. You will know him from the trail of his women The ones he rates as sevens Unless they’ve got great tits, then it’s 8.9 and sometimes 11. I’ve been annexed, taken over […]

It’s Time I’ve been making progress. Been driving through the city lights. Burning up so many goddamn tires Leaving them at the dead-end streets On fire. But I keep on trucking. Until tonight. Feeling, just feeling Hormonal, not sentimental. Pregnant (yea) with emotion. Godammnit, I was looking for your rage Feeling in a blue lake […]

Tempest Yes, the goddamn storms will rage, man! Will you fight or take flight? Will you man up and see the light Or sulk like a fucking little child? Yes, the times will be tough, man! You’ll lose the girl and gain A new one losing her again Because of your memory of the old […]

By Nature And Not Commodity And when I needed toilet paper I crumpled up white Eddy Made it softer and soaked it in thunderstorm humidity Dried and it and it was ready. And when I needed underwear I wore some panty liners When they ran out, turned my undies inside out Or washed them in […]