Wired Woods


Day Time

The crump of ancient motor and distant shriek of bird split open the clipped hedges and gate of curved fields and cupped minds.

Here, where brown water fallen from rusty pipe clings to chipped rock, is where sweaty paths lead up into singing overgrown wired woods that close in on long forgotten cylindered reminders of hard labour and childhood.

Night Time

Stepping inside the broken windowed shopfront, you walk in silence, smoke in hand, through ankle cement, wooden glue, canal wire and rusty nail.

Walking Notes

   Steve Coel 

An 11.59 Publication   

Truth is...



Truth is...

you's defined by what you is...

by what you does...

by what you wears...

way you acts or reacts...

way; way before what you says...

so...

you's on the downside corner

smoking a newly picked clean

switchblade butt end 

left for you

in local park overnight...

this is not ever nice...


you two, we sees 

sticks too close

to each other,

is the general 

local give away,

didn't listen to 

instructions see,

did you

so...

no respect will be forthcoming...


you's trying too hard

to impress

the 

wrong people.

Walking Notes

Steve Coel

An 11.59 Publication

The Adult Corner



Clipped metal
drunken cars clutter 
the broken citadel
at the head
of the illegal 
van garaged highway.

...the coffee blast
from the 
shuttered arch
is matched
with snatches
of whispered vaped chatter...

A stubble walk
across butchered
sleeping paths

..and loose change
on the blind side
of the adult corner ..



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Steve Coel


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Steve Coel
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Steve Coel
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The Mercy Path



Once you bypass
the last lightning tree
you enter a hillside world
of midnight stream
and border wire music.

Here, across shilling debris
and early shadow,
blisters of high mist
compose movement
from iron and broken bone.


The Mercy Path
Walking Notes
Steve Coel


Clog Street
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The place I was born, is not the place I grew up in...
Walking Notes
Steve Coel
An 11.59 Publication