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

So hot
The amber melted.

Six stick thin legs
Intact

Gossamer wings
Four
Glowing

Abdomen head
Antennae all
Alive

I flight check

Mate

And die.

Too buoyant-

Syllables that

Once sank to
Ocean bed

And dissolved
Spreading nutrients

Now

They float
And mass

As microplastic
Waste lakes

Blocking the light.

Consciouness that
Pervades

Become flat
As a screen-

Dead as moon

In this instant

Lightening stricken

Sounds

Illuminate and

Annihilate

In this
Instant

Of love

And loss

All is movement

After the ******

Father

After you killed me-

Your little boy-

I say goodbye-

Father-

Long after

You died



Goodbye

We all find our own
Rocky road to hell.

Some unspool thread
Or scatter bread-
Crumbs

To sustain the way home.

For some it is beatrice
Angelically swaying

For me it Lady J

Patiently waiting

God sat on my shoulder

Those days-

Whispered in my ear
Undiagnosed-

Until he left.

The ancient of days
Still clung to the ceiling

Modigliani
Gauguin hanged
Naked on the wall.

I prayed for one
Glimpse

Of the beyond

Lava of my youth
Cools,
Breaks brine surface.

You haul your
Scale tail
Onto rock,

Produce mirror
And comb somehow

And sing;

Lighthouse *******
Flashing,

Lure street urchins
To doom.

Holed hulls, wooden,
Br'ken masts
And skeletons,

You immortalise them all;

Evolving starfish
A coral girdling
Your navel

And as
Each area of grass
Becomes clear-

Each leaf cut and
Carried to the nest-

I interfere and poke
With a stick the
Stacks and

Out spill the
Myriad ants
In orange

Or black

Each arched
With egg
And

Marching in
Columns to set up-
Once again

A home for Queen-
Soldiers patrolling
And castles of

Sand arising-

Falling...

Awake or asleep

Alive or no

No matter

Together

In love

We glow

Beyond the apocalypse

A mere rip

In time

Forgiveness-

1
When mike the monk

Meets the hairy
Black hole-

Quantum
Information

Leaping

Into new forms

Of life-

2
When the ashes
Have settled

On the
Residue

Of **** sapiens-

What will emerge

From
Or
Into
The darkness

1
I did not **** them
But let them die

Because their roots
Offended you

2
Spring this year was
Daffodil bright and
Iris blue

3
Blood shows clear
On snow
White-

She lies in
Ruins

Now

Do not constrain

Our

English

With strait-
Jacketed
Rules

No-

She shall burst
Through
Or wriggle free-

Shred the padded
Walls and
Rubbelize the cells

English
Our English

Ever shall be
Free...

Striving for greatness
Or

Better

The still
Small
Voice
Whispering

Heart heart heart

Addled
Scrambled

Need to be
Coddled

O woman

Unravel
Your egg

Perfect
Embryonic
Shell-

The word
That emerged

From bottomed

Time

1
Open well
Rounded
Stones
Water-worn
And mossed-

Light lichen
Grazing
Top touch
Stone-

Stone
And water
And air

Open like
Spinal
Column

Ganglion
Connection

Through which
Pass all
Sensations

Necessities of
Air
Water
Growth
And stone-

2
Well and
Open to
All
Sensation

And necessary
Breath
Of life

Through
Bodies rigid
With fear
With joy
Withal
Emotion
Travail

Travelling
Through ether
Escape
The mortal

Soul

Livid
Live

Breathing
Stone
Air-moss-lichen
Water

­Well alive

Chesterfield ancient

Overstuffed coarse

Horse-haired.

Full of books

Memory bursting

Seams of poor

Old elephant

Hiding in

Plain sight.

Enough of
Wearying
Eyes

Watered and
Salted.

Write it out
Poor old man

Or split your
Sides

Cherry flower



Falls-

Leaves
Grieve and
Grow

Somehow

The last fuel

A bonfire of
Inanities-

An egg cracks

Loud as thunder-

Phoenix

Still - born

Pointing the prow
Out to sea

Away
Out of sight

Of the estuary.

New adventure
On high sea

You, the dog
And me.

From deepest
Hibernation
Rise

Phantomic
Images-

A street of
Ceaseless hum

A poesy of
Fallen petals-

This is work
Beyond words

Where silence
Snows

And everlasting
Freedom

Roams,
Bandaged and
Balmed against
The light that
Blisters
And fails.

Even so,
Love seems real

One

Crack in old
Factory wall-

Brave daisy

Two

Crack in a wall

Brave daisy
Brave daisy

Three

Crack in mortar
Old wall-

Daisy colony

Four

Old crack in
Factory wall-

Daisy lucky

Five

Daisy-daisy

Cling to crack
In old factory

Wall

Petrified
Forests
Embedding
Under
Sea-

Sea
Creatures
Surmounting­
Peaks-

Slowly,
World
Turning
Upside-
Down

If you read me
You need know
Nothing.

Only read
And finish
This...

The best poets explore

Pulling sled-loads
Of knowledge and
Eating it all
To survive

Leaving only a
Single brown mark
At the southern pole
Of language-

In infinite white

Disappearing

Cat sat
On ledge,
How clever.

Dog eyed,
Laying on floor.

How they regard
One,
The other,

With cautious,
Sharing,

Love.


Domestic,

Blissful,

Unaware,

Human­s dote,

Eat biscuits.

Cup rim contains

Flat tea-


Through window pane
Moon shaft

Reflects and

Dapples the ceiling
Matt and flat.


How shimmering light
From afar

Illumines the leaf
Plucked from

Mountain shrub
Far away

To refresh the

Flat wet
Emptiness

Of mind

O to ****** a phrase
From the plethora!

To catch a likeness
Of truth,
Verbally hooked-

To free
This
One
Instant

A tangle
Of sticky

Silk

Not yet dry enough

For weaving into

Beauty.

(Silken cravat
Soothes my craggy
Poet
Neck)

Outside
The world lies

Broken-

Minds trammelled,
Books ablaze.

Only here
Cozy nest

Sanity
Warm caress

And a happiness
Now

This word

Already

Dated


Soon

Incomprehensible

To all

Teeming mass of humanity

Ember glow

Lifted to cold

Darkness

Mere million years

And gone

Water supporting

Clouds forming


             Drift

Action seeking flesh

Pulling together

Two bodies

___Cleaning

Lifetime lost
Or stolen-

Clearing out choices

Taking back time

____Manifest

Making now

In image

Known
And
Owned

To ritualise the fog

That in mercy

Lifts

To reveal the lit
Globe burning
Life-

Proof

That mind

Is fog

And flaming hydrogen


And one