dazmb: Poems

May 2015 · 565

Hidden in plain sight

dazmb May 2015

Hidden in plain sight

the daily mapping
the never looking close enough
always surrounded by
uncertainty and rumour

#poetry

May 2015 · 1.6k

Stupid argument

dazmb May 2015

Stupid argument

there is no map for forgiveness
just a maze of bone deep navigation
through static
and the unknown frequencies of love

#love #forgiveness #argument

May 2015 · 738

Yew Tree

dazmb May 2015

Yew Tree

we bury the dead
as bone deep ghosts to ourselves
relying instead
on the earth
to return us uprooted
as something pagan and pure

#death #trees #rebirth

May 2015 · 4.5k

Cathode shadow

dazmb May 2015

Cathode shadow

my body turns
against my self
in cathode shadow
and a bone deep
multiplication of cells

#death #shadow #cancer

May 2015 · 9.5k

4am fox

dazmb May 2015

4am fox

a 4am fox
inspects the night's carcass
under the sodium delete of street light
and to the sound of my wife's gentle snoring

#poetry #writing #fox

May 2015 · 609

One night stand

dazmb May 2015

One night stand

strangers kiss
their lips full
of panic and desire

#desire #*** #onenightstand

May 2015 · 603

Axe handles

dazmb May 2015

Axe handles

Axe handles
hew wood
to a seasoning stack.

Yet a hunting horn
still chases me relentlessly.

How old
- how cold I got
so quickly.

#poetry #writing #ageing

May 2015 · 494

Wake

dazmb May 2015

Wake

childhood grief
the sun lingers on
and the house smells
of someone walking home
I reach for my mother’s arms
in sorrow and safekeeping

#mother #grief #memory #childhood

May 2015 · 1.3k

Wolfpack

dazmb May 2015

Wolfpack

out in the tundra
there is never
the gentle end
you long for
just eye teeth
that pursue you
for a glint of sky
deep in the bone

#death #wolf #hunt

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