Early bird
and barely held
emerging blur

stir coffee lines in irises
of ibis billed regret
divide me


Unexpected
great white egrets
underlit and unicorn
on secret morning movements

A prudency of ivy hides
the singer - not the song

a backing track of blackcap
warming, calling down
the early sun, as if
to walk beside me

Seeing all

becoming

distant

Feeling time

giving, taking

seperating harmlessly

not longing for the velvet nothing.


Something
parsimonious

embittering
the marly glow

an antiquated
melancholy

speaks a name
I know

What it is

is neither love nor hate,

collated tattered spirit

scaped a folly
of indifference

-a brave-face disingenuous-

and all to keep it safe

spread the weight
about the skeleton
re-christened it acceptance,

... enchanted
by this eloquence

I lollop on my way..

I swear
there was a garden here

before the breaking winter
won the blades of shorted glint

through hazy recollection
swims a watermark imprinted

of a simple tangled haven
at the shaking of the World

One look up,
....and suddenly

to silly mortal me, they seem divine!

- the high, wide skies of late October-

Thin implies of Goldcrest
reed the conifers
-remind-

that findings of the time
may yet inspire.

Monosylabic

lower case

becalmed

day-harm, flexed
with love thin spread
and unexpectant

textbook closure
white-of-lie

two minute token
taken back, on track
to stormless sanctums

          -leaving-

binding plight
of Seven Sisters

supple, vexed
impressed, Celestia
nuzzled by the dazzle dog

          -of evening-

earth quakes,
to see you cry

but where there's water
there is life

a love that fights for air

aloof, above the alibi,
the ad-libbed acts
of subterfuge

where proof is in the fire
of your making..