One foot
Before
One foot after
Before

Turn left
Or right
Beyond the
Gateless
Gate
And walk
And trust
The feet to
Go
Just where
You ought
To.........

Decades empty
Of
Achievement.

Somewhere
Far off

A dung beetle rolls
Rhino stuff

To feed
Hungry roots
Of

Elephant grass

You sit-unmoved-
In your Mountain fastness.

The tree Spirits frolic,
Hiding, slipping trunk
To trunk until, uncertain-

Your Belief transcends.

A single tear ploughs
One runnel down a silted
Cheek
And the Flood some day

Shall unleash a grim
Vengeance on those who
Forgot-

Our place in Nature
Ruptured,

We hasten toward
The failing Cliff

Lovely crater

Your sweet cordite
Smell.

Yang war
Seed of peace

Peace and love
Nurturing
Nurturing
War.

And here we are
All in all

All against all

A naked embrace
Of drooling
Fools

***

No

SPACE

These grumbling bones

Still holding

Up

Cold old moon

See-saws

Broiling old sun

Over the hill and

Goes hide to seek

In plain sight

With the
Burning
Of this toast

I honor the spirit

Of the living

Fog navigator
Streetlamp puddle up-
Sun to sun

Momentary pleasures

Gone

Gone!

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

Magnetic pole
Switch

Woman man
Switch

And in the midst
Of change

(Just change
Just change)

I am

?

Aboard a plank
Light revolves
Above steady
Pulsing waves

Lighting the way
Steadily pulsing,
In tune with
Distant stars.

In time, waving
Not drowning,
Lamp glows on
Faces pressed against
Berained glass bridge.

Starlight billion year travelled

Loving the steady
Pulse and poles

Of brave light
Offshore

Grey squirrel fight
Pink petals scatter

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

Perhaps I stood too long
By the wall,
Trellis diamond printing my back.

As tendrils wound
Around the feet,
Began to love ankle
And knee,

All members and organs
Beribonned-

Face greened
Blackened and
Yellowed bee
Stung features

Grow and swell
Until

At last baldness burst
Into sun

And flower.

Oh!
Prise this spine
From mortared wall
And watch as
Petals

Soar...

Tipped a bucket of words
Down the Well,

Echo calls:

"Soon to be forgotten"

How strong is the rope?

When knife

Slices

There is

Now

No-one

There

A whole bunch
Of stones

Circled round

The sun

Impatient for death.

Tell me why
Patricia.

No need.

The spilling
Mess

Of his seed.

Mad along the
High street

To every-one

But nobody wnats
To make love to me

Boo hoo boo hoo

Boo hoo

Knot in cherry trunk
Seeping amber.

Insect form
Emboldened forever.

I blew the conch

The Angels descended

They had no choice


When we need

The Angels

They must descend


Thank them

Worm cast
Whorls

Denote a
Subtle
Decomposition of
The long,

Now living,

Dead

Too much

Word

Perhaps the painting
Will survive the blast

Or paint peel as skin
Revealing space

Sleep of the dead-
Grandfather's coat wrapt,
Body sunk into rock.

Deer nuzzle beard,
Fawn lies close
Sharing warmth.


Heat of fire rouses-
Underworld risen to
Surface-

Heaven's low pressure
Sinks to earth.

Loud clash
Angels
Demons-

Tumult of change...

What have we done?

A damaged deer
Cowers in shrubbery

Camouflaged against
The curious.

Eyes moist
Nose twitching

Heart thumping
Fit to burst.

Little doe, how
Did you get here

Lost, like us all,
In suburb?

You

Speechless

Richard
Alfred
Edmund
Unearthed.

Reclaiming the city
River

Walking
Rising

Olde englande

Stirring

Reclaiming

Rising
Again

It's ok

I was talking
To a flower-

She said

I am running
Out of time.

Forget time-

Shine forever

Wearing
Socks,
Boots

To destruction

Eternity is dark

Fleeting spark of stars

Simplicity of small lives

Snuffed inevitably-

Dark

Light

The texture of being

Dark is everywhere

The joke is
Light

The little *****
Of light

Teasing.

Yes, I scream

And love the little
Pinprick light.

Goodnight.

Hard, fractal carapace
Protects

Soft underbelly

And cold blood filtered
Through a loving
Mammalian heart

Sinking into
The aesthetic

Blow bubbles
Of Honey

Almost too sweet
For a bumbling
Bee

Pointing the prow
Out to sea

Away
Out of sight

Of the estuary.

New adventure
On high sea

You, the dog
And me.

Silk

Wine

Awake or asleep

Alive or no

No matter

Together

In love

We glow

All of the atoms,
Molecules

Coalesce in me.

We are universe.

Joy.

Moment
Bird

Flut

Flutt

Flutter

each word hangs on
it's own rope


how to help them
intertwine
to lift from dank jungle floor

climb through the canopy

show monkey eyes the
wood amongst the trees

If I should die

Think nothing
Of it...

In the end lives
The beginning...

All I know is love


Love love love love love

The stars
In billions

Eternity

Bottled oceans
Easy

But

Hair

Eye

Movement
Of woman-

No idea

Who? What
Who? What
Am I?

Walked 10,000 miles

100 years

Who what
Carried canvas sack

Shed tears
Who what-

Now sit and ponder
Who? What
Who? What
Am I

So here I am
A couple of dead poets,
Dead people laying around,
Dead flowers

Dead souls

Dead end roads

And here am I

Dancing under the moon

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...

A lone manifest
Ideal
Lost at sea.

This the end
Movement of the listed-

Freedom is
Freedom from only-

Freedom to only
Chaos.


That day you told
"Watch your step"

(I had tripped)

My answered
'Ha!'

Rang a bell before
Time