CLARENCE CADDELL is a poet currently dwelling in the Riverina district. His second collection, Broken Words, will be published with Bonfire Books later this year. 

AKRASIA

Yes, I will break my cigarette butts open

To roll another, dirty trembling fingers

Acting before my subject soul assents;

And I will contact one I put my hope in

Before and yet once more because she lingers

A likelihood, although I have more sense.

MY CONSCIENCE

My conscience only lightly seared, I bite

And forth comes blood of no salvific power;

And forth it oozes through each day and night,

So that I feel the constant need to shower.