But yesterday, the weather
was of heat and sweat, heavy
wool, the air stood still.
Today, the winds swoop down
chilled and urgent, small
spattering of rain tapping
on the terra cotta roof.
Inside, I build a fire;
I have the right to mourn
what can't be saved or changed.
It isn't easy to ignore
the darkness, blackened clouds
or ravaged trees, but here within
the man-made silence, secretly
underneath the mystery of struggle,
another world is born.
In my time of
When I see the road by night
Glittering and chill
I think of Pierre Curie
Call your name, palaver
Polonium
There's this scarf I have
Black and long
And I look out for it
Brushing up against the car fins
A little closely
Sweet Izzy Duncan
Full-thighed dances to mind
Dancing away to join you
And then there's
Wayward son
Carrying on
Don't know if we'll meet up
When I'll have skidded, glided, elided
Forgive me for going
Into such detail
This is not yet about me
Glittering and chill
I think of Pierre Curie
Call your name, palaver
Polonium
There's this scarf I have
Black and long
And I look out for it
Brushing up against the car fins
A little closely
Sweet Izzy Duncan
Full-thighed dances to mind
Dancing away to join you
And then there's
Wayward son
Carrying on
Don't know if we'll meet up
When I'll have skidded, glided, elided
Forgive me for going
Into such detail
This is not yet about me
Foolish Hearted
In the middle of my country,
I un-earthed my heart, carried
it in my hands to the sea;
overnight its roots shriveled,
dried like scab on old wounds.
I laid my heart in the sands,
the foamy surf caught it like
a small, pink shell or stone,
floating for a moment, then
submerged and disappeared.
Years went by before I found it
washed up on a lonely shore;
it's roots were long and large,
its body filled with stories,
bloated to the point of rupture
by what it finally learned:
no matter where your heart is,
it knows where it belongs.
Burden of Time
We bumped into each other on the small dark trail I always took when I was tired of mankind.
'Pardon me son,' the frail man whispered like leaves rustling.
'It's ok the way here is narrow,' I replied impatient to move along. He hesitated.
'Please spare a moment son?' he begged. I sighed and stopped.
We faced each other on the small trail suspended for seconds in the same time and space.
'Thank you,' we said at the same time after a moment.
Then we left on our opposite sides of time.
We bumped into each other on the small dark trail I always took when I was tired of mankind.
'Pardon me son,' the frail man whispered like leaves rustling.
'It's ok the way here is narrow,' I replied impatient to move along. He hesitated.
'Please spare a moment son?' he begged. I sighed and stopped.
We faced each other on the small trail suspended for seconds in the same time and space.
'Thank you,' we said at the same time after a moment.
Then we left on our opposite sides of time.
Wide-Awake and Weary
I am sleeping. Ceaseless
horizon. The slowness of
a stone. Gray steel bars
of silence welded into night.
It's said there is a river,
black, whose banks are built
from dying stars, waiting
is a boat of bone to take us
where the lifeless live.
I am a sleeper more than
I am wide-awake and weary.
Here is my three-headed dog
who has not seen the sky or sun
here are my bloodless wings
white and pale as ivory, folded
down. Let me be a memory, a thin
laced curtain, a speck of dust,
forevor sleeping, a child whose dreams
are swallowed by the darkness.
horizon. The slowness of
a stone. Gray steel bars
of silence welded into night.
It's said there is a river,
black, whose banks are built
from dying stars, waiting
is a boat of bone to take us
where the lifeless live.
I am a sleeper more than
I am wide-awake and weary.
Here is my three-headed dog
who has not seen the sky or sun
here are my bloodless wings
white and pale as ivory, folded
down. Let me be a memory, a thin
laced curtain, a speck of dust,
forevor sleeping, a child whose dreams
are swallowed by the darkness.
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YOU i think you gotta revise that cookie thing. dont you? yes you do. well how revise the vise speaking of ,, the vice of grip, they vice grip ,, the city grip the only one to vice yr presidency as wits do wallop their saying being
take that word fosting for example ,, what is that? a slip of ,,
of the tonguing? ,,
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Pigbone
a cowl of flesh
thistle bone woven
into the shoulders
a garrotte of pigiron
turned round the spine
the day they spoke of came
in shuddered whispers
from the seabed below
shoulders nickered
the spine shackled
in pigbone
thistle bone woven
into the shoulders
a garrotte of pigiron
turned round the spine
the day they spoke of came
in shuddered whispers
from the seabed below
shoulders nickered
the spine shackled
in pigbone
Metaphysics of Art
“The artwork must be born, excuse the grotesque expression, from the most vivid tripes of the individual, yet freed to the utmost from this viscerality in the end. That's the recipe, but it is difficult to apply”.Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
The Existence of Moths
Because I know
we're free to choose
joy or violence
I do not suffer
as I should.
Imagine hovering
above the garden like
mist or moth; the gate,
the high road
filled with stones-
not a bitter path.
What can this mean?
Certainly, the absence
of the heart is flight
and just as quickly,
the carefree moth departs.
we're free to choose
joy or violence
I do not suffer
as I should.
Imagine hovering
above the garden like
mist or moth; the gate,
the high road
filled with stones-
not a bitter path.
What can this mean?
Certainly, the absence
of the heart is flight
and just as quickly,
the carefree moth departs.
Orange Light
If even once I stop
to feel, I am closer
to dying.
A thunderstorm rolls
over the horizon, upturned
my face absorbs its darkness.
I recognize a shadow
in the window; how it grew
then broke apart.
I cannot learn to live
forevor; follow me into
the cold, black night.
In the morning, mountains
in the distance, clouds
dripping orange light.
to feel, I am closer
to dying.
A thunderstorm rolls
over the horizon, upturned
my face absorbs its darkness.
I recognize a shadow
in the window; how it grew
then broke apart.
I cannot learn to live
forevor; follow me into
the cold, black night.
In the morning, mountains
in the distance, clouds
dripping orange light.
Staid Plaintiff
A doctor, a dodge, a fulcrum: all these and radiant choirs overstepping viscous marshes where onward flows the march of time. Or lately, the fading seizes a new set of nouns
Cheerful rejoinder seethes in the panic of another partly closed door. These are people, in our neighbourhood and drama. And these are friends, or else.
That sense of family that doesn’t quite work instills this native tongue-lashing. There was a disappointment to be gained, and a newsworthy loss, more or less. The more would be a staining that could apply. The less would be a node left behind
What arches over the testy remains of this juncture but the spotted title of leaving? We are turned around in emphasis, and feel hurt by little shards placed indiscreetly into our skin.
We have no time to care for having the time to care. We have been hurt by a leveling and the income of expanse. Humans are just the way they are, reporting their wages in rapt gaming, and still need a hug. Few hugs can be saved in this climate; the weather of politics wears us down.
When books end, a space opens. This is not to tease us, we have work to do. The human complement attains its mar, studiously vying for an effective resumption
No one wants to stay within that boundary, we all want to resist. Resistance is verbal, most times. We feel a loss, like a family. It can happen to anyone, not just our own falling tone.
The doctor is increment in some ladder effect. The dodge is extremes taken for function. A fulcrum is our basis, which we should honour with the name of our friends. The rest is a sentence, which hangs over our heads.
Cheerful rejoinder seethes in the panic of another partly closed door. These are people, in our neighbourhood and drama. And these are friends, or else.
That sense of family that doesn’t quite work instills this native tongue-lashing. There was a disappointment to be gained, and a newsworthy loss, more or less. The more would be a staining that could apply. The less would be a node left behind
What arches over the testy remains of this juncture but the spotted title of leaving? We are turned around in emphasis, and feel hurt by little shards placed indiscreetly into our skin.
We have no time to care for having the time to care. We have been hurt by a leveling and the income of expanse. Humans are just the way they are, reporting their wages in rapt gaming, and still need a hug. Few hugs can be saved in this climate; the weather of politics wears us down.
When books end, a space opens. This is not to tease us, we have work to do. The human complement attains its mar, studiously vying for an effective resumption
No one wants to stay within that boundary, we all want to resist. Resistance is verbal, most times. We feel a loss, like a family. It can happen to anyone, not just our own falling tone.
The doctor is increment in some ladder effect. The dodge is extremes taken for function. A fulcrum is our basis, which we should honour with the name of our friends. The rest is a sentence, which hangs over our heads.
Of Stars and Wolves
Look to the wolf for ideas. How to
spend your time creeping through darkness
towards the nimble hearted who will leave
this world in nature's belly.
Once, I believed I was made of stars;
poor, sad shining light swallowed by wolves
each time they howl. And beauty was
a yellow eye that caught the moon,
held it in its claws and mouth,
caught the deer, the shivering mouse,
the wavering gold-throated bird
without a sense of grief or guilt.
Can we help but wonder of visible life
as if the unseen, the subtle illusions
of movement (rustling leaves, distortion
of light, the hidden, invisible parts)
may not exist at all?
spend your time creeping through darkness
towards the nimble hearted who will leave
this world in nature's belly.
Once, I believed I was made of stars;
poor, sad shining light swallowed by wolves
each time they howl. And beauty was
a yellow eye that caught the moon,
held it in its claws and mouth,
caught the deer, the shivering mouse,
the wavering gold-throated bird
without a sense of grief or guilt.
Can we help but wonder of visible life
as if the unseen, the subtle illusions
of movement (rustling leaves, distortion
of light, the hidden, invisible parts)
may not exist at all?
'The Old Copy'
The old copy was damaged by water.
Still, I savoured the words
and discovered your prayer of fellowship:
no water drenching party or flesh fancy.
Even the best of intentions are often awkward to carry;
a tear dropped on a festival day is no different from any other.
all the wonderlust is cased in dire dependencies.
The call to ruin, the call to reward.
Nothing means much for more than a moment.
Somehow, the thought of someone writing today,
makes me remember how I loved that damaged thing.
The water damaged never mared the words on the page.
Still, I savoured the words
and discovered your prayer of fellowship:
no water drenching party or flesh fancy.
Even the best of intentions are often awkward to carry;
a tear dropped on a festival day is no different from any other.
all the wonderlust is cased in dire dependencies.
The call to ruin, the call to reward.
Nothing means much for more than a moment.
Somehow, the thought of someone writing today,
makes me remember how I loved that damaged thing.
The water damaged never mared the words on the page.
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