"It is not quite finished"

"Well
Neither am I"

Kisses hot weld
Some cracks

Filigree gold fill
And line

Some iced crevace
Open sore

Olden heart not wholly pure
Yet not beyond repair

Beneath,
Worm wonders at
The taste of
Waste

Segmental separation
Breaks the cycling of
Soil

Seed that ***** at
Nourishment lies
Forlorn

And all the sun and rain

Bell peal
Through fog

Wake up
Seek the mountain

Beneath the thatch
Cozy
Relaxed

Legs stretch out

The gap between
Fire dance
And log

Summer twilight
Blushing colours
Merge and swirl

Subtle reds yellows blues

No brush visible-
Breath of god

My Lady must be near
Xylophone spine chimes

Touch of her Angel
Wing

Grey white
Gulls

Red chimney
Stack

Every year

Ark Ark

1
Drawn into the vortex
Of your life

By a formulaic
'How are you'

Hoarding memories
Like misers
As if identity were
A Thing
A Table, measured
And crafted

2
Or Self-real
When the very
Galaxies with
Dizzying speed

Belie the very
Notion of
Being

Amorphous time
Boxed,
Bagged fog pieced in
Handy seasons

Anniversaries
Of Nothing,
Events
Commemorations,

A drubbing of history
And nullification
Of failure.

3
No lights dim
City life

No Spring
Penetrates the
Screen

Plato sits in his
Cave
Weeping darkly,
Counting
Bodhidharmas
Eyelash
Over and over
Again

Tried to write
Wordless Poem

Perhaps succeeded

But could not share
So

What is the Use?

1
The spin of
Light and dark
Will stop

And following-

An overflow of
Red love or

The blank stare

Of nothingness

2

One day i held you

It is enough

3
Never and again
Will darkness spill
Over the edge of
A bowl
Shimmered into
Light,
Vibration of the miniscule
Energising the mighty

Pigment earth
Water
Tree paper hair brush
Hand eye brain
Trillion particles
Foot root head sky beyond

Mark on paper
Connection

Infinite time
Space definition

Mark of possibility
Existence being
Or gone

Stained and left
Forever to
Decay slowly

On this cave wall

Today

Two trout on a line

One struggling

It is

Making a path

By walking

Cold then hot the dish
By turns evolves a decadence
Of Death.

This blue green fungus is
Culture,
Renaissance can wait for
The Bloom of Dissolution to fade.

Hand dissolves in
Mind eye
And Survivors pick over the
Will of off-white Bones

****** of crows caw
And claw memorial at Westcliff prom

The Heroes
Mostly dead or
Dismembered

Whisper why on
Atlantic wind
West and why
Why

Strange how suns burn out
Tired of the light

Emerging from the Cave

Sunshine

Blinking
Drops form

Blue sky

Deep breath

Freedom

13 Pearls
In the sands of Arabia
12 got lost

Now where is the other

Tide arrives

Take a breath,
Deep

Engulfed within the Ocean,
Unconsciousness

Let it

Narcissus nods agreement with
Gentle breeze slipping across
An iced puddle-

Winter and the air feels clean
But is not;
Sun shines bright but is dim

As aeons dictate

This deep night
Dis-lo-cation
Sends tattoos

Dropping on the pane.

Only the Lonely
Discern a rhythm

Only the disconcerted
See full moon
Seep light through

Ocean-full cloud
One eye brimful

One dry as prickle

Drunk as a Hummingberd
Beak-deep in Hibiscus

Imbibing your aroma through
Every pore and Feathered follicle

Eyes
In your mirror
Perfect

Every pigment irised
Each fleck of yellow and
Black lining

Deep
Reflection
Irridescent pools

Your eyes
In your mirror
Take me home

Carboniferous Tree
Heavy with Water
Pregnant with Seed

Diamond holder
Recycler of Dreams
My other Mother

Beneath your Beams
Blows Harmonica
While Dinky the Dog

Does the Howling for me

Midwinter lights
***** holes in gloom.

For a moment
Stars unfreeze.

Cataract lifts-

Unveiled-

Limitless possibility
Glints

My head is an empty space
Crossed at times by small sparks

A memory
A thought
Cloud
Delusion

Coming and going
And gone

Returning to the Tower
It was not there

The next Block
My former Home
Gone

All the places I stayed
For years
Notable by Absence

The Window with views
Of London
Empty


Now
I too

Am not there

Transparent Skeletal
Leaf
Exposed-
Multitude of Angels stitching
Unpicked by unforgiving Sugars

And on the heap a
Multitude of Stars break down-
Release an Ozone of melancholy
Nitrogenous breath

Growth of Aeons

How we plunder the young
For our wars
We old bald men

Frantic for a comb

West wind growing

Yellow leaf
Brink of

Mapled
Syrupy
Red Leaf

Perfectly

Framed
On Grass

Shell cracks wrapped in Knuckle

Squeeze the oily
Memory
Through Flesh of Seed.

In this Kernel the Beating
Heart of Being
Expresses
From Land to Stalk from
Barking Stem to whippet waving Leaf.

All my Head exposed in
Creamed whorls of Walnut-
The Apple Pip of Manhood shown
Only to Woman

Tiny orbs deflect
Awareness
Of Pure Light.

Telling nothing of their interior

And so Ignorance grows alongside
Knowledge
Of the Show

1
Traveller

The Traveller Travelleth
Becauth he hath no home

2
Who

Name: Date of Birth:

The first two Hooks
Into innocent Flesh.

If, instead

Unborn

Only Hanging by a tightening Cord
From Womb

Poet forms Itself
Through new
Invented Name
New Birth Rite

30 years of Solitude

And a borrowed Fedora

The new hat sports a white plume

The Carolean coat is lace ruffed

The face is rouged and moustachioed

The breeches swell pleated
Around the thigh to
Highlight silken stockinged calf

The shoes remain, unfortunately, buckled
But the silver matches the sword,
The hilt is bejewelled

And the horse, Stallion
Large white (grey)
Magnificent.

The ugly Puritans,
Locked in round helmets,
Noses pelmeted
Literature expunged

Flee

Sand heap

Eroding

Beyond Sky
The Atmosphere glows
Million souls snake to view

Queen

From Space
Great China Wall
Dragon stone piled long

Soft flesh of England
Mourning

Still

And

Clear

And

Clear

And

Still

Sand heap

Eroding

Vow fulfilled

The point of fire
On the promontory

Burning mist

A glimmer

Sign

To ship
Unmasted,
Rudderless

Look
Though ye may not see

Rock
Beneath-

Sans food
Water
Air

This ship of fools

Beware

Follow twig runes

To the unbuilt nest

Retrace the flight

Of a wild
White goose

From landing place

To lonely source

How free?

Trace flight

Track toes-


Quill scratch

Feather cap

Gilt cage

Wing flap

Beak chirp

Egg nest

Chick gape

Dawn lust

How free

Can bird

Or bee?

Small
Footsteps
Track and trace

Trace and track
Small footsteps

You, moon

Pulling my tides

To flowing movement when i strive to be still

You, young moon

Agitating roots to
Push soil

When all oak requires is acorn rest

Yes you,
Moon

Mistress movement

Cycling countryside to mock silly cities falling down.


Water water everyone unable
To
Stagnate
Or drown thanks to you,
Moon

Opening shutters
Early light

Illuminates
House plants.

Green

Healthy

Trees.

Outside
Flowers glow

And the lump
Of karmic
Iron soul

Dissolves.

Free

Happy

And

Free

1
Snout-
Soft earth hardening
To frost-

Sharp claws
Deft holes

Pouted cheeks
Puff chromosomal
Seed

And cover.

2
When
Where
Random but

Here stands
Forest

Forgotten by
Overfed
Rodents.

3
Trillion pin
*****
Galaxy lights.

4
What
Legacy

May glow

Beyond
Infinity.

5
Here
Now

It is all

Freely from
Me

To you

Drop all
Unscathed by
Vagaries

Divine indifference

Unscathed
All dropped

Indifference
Divine

Look at wall

Drop all
Divine indifference

Unscathed

You shook
Something loose

(Red blood-
Heart
That was dead
White

Pumping again)


You