Misc. Quatrains

Four-line poems and stanzas are collectively called “quatrains”. There are various sub-types, like the Balliol and the crooked quad.

Poems

1. 2026-01-05

   When angels abroad
   Must cover their tracks,
   They call down the snow
   And smoke and relax.

2. 2025-09-14

   Bleeding hearts in chip-shop papers
   Rattle, weep, and wheeze;
   Money made astride the victims
   Changes hands with ease.

3. 2025-08-06

   The old men sip away the hours
   With anaesthetic tongues;
   They slur about their wealth and power
   And blame death on the young.

4. 2025-07-12

   Sun slugs down
   Cold and dark—
   Hands can't build
   Our last ark.

5. 2025-07-12
   Blizzard Belly

   Blizzard Belly
   	eats and eats—
   His favourite food
   	is hands and feets.

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   Also tried using “loves to eats” as the second line, but the “eats” didn't flow as well as the end of “eats and eats”.

6. 2025-05-16

   In the driveways
   Bought with blood,
   More SUVs
   Than specks of mud.

7. 2025-05-13

   The ocean walks on coral feet,
   Retreating day by day,
   And when horizons all dry out,
   To thirsty gods we'll pray.

8. 2025-04-12

   Little stone,
   Caught in my shoe,
   My travel partner—
   Fuck you.

9. 2025-03-31

   Grief is the thing with feathers
   That burrows in the breast;
   It eats the best words from the lungs
   And vomits up the rest.