Pebble

Pond

In rain
With the sheep
And the pain

She
Ewe
Lick my face

Wet sheep saliva
Tears and rain

Squatting naked
Green in the rain

Explosion of seed

Refugees blown high

And wide

To interbreed-

The race evolves
But
Beware the weeds

2 particles

Galxies
Apart

Mirror
Exact

Space time
Cannot

Restrain

With love
And beauty

No foot on a
Board

A boat

No

How to sink

No

Drown

I saw your children
Playing
In the Fiery Pit

Unscorched


How the honest
Innocent

Survive

How little we look.

And yet
No sculpure in stone
Nor canvas daub,

No photographic pixel mash

Can catch the
Soaring beauty,
Vouchsafed to me,

Of You

Glacial melt-
Lake nibbles at
Mountain.

Moon sea-
Four billion years
Yawning.

Love pits and
Farrows
Face.

Not so gentle-
Pinkish blood
Gorged passion.

Turn brow-
Lower lids
Pitted
Dusty

Grey

Yes
Cuddle

At 5 days old
Heput steel on flesh
And wine on my tongue

A little less skin

A lot more man

Poem

Gone

Petrified
Forests
Embedding
Under
Sea-

Sea
Creatures
Surmounting­
Peaks-

Slowly,
World
Turning
Upside-
Down

Mighty Oak
Grows tiny acorn

It will tumble and fall.

You wouldbe so safe
In my arms

If we could bubble-

So lonely.

Easy to sit in
Cosy coffin and

Pontificate
Upon the death of
Others-

Easy annihilation
Of
Self
So
Cosily confined

Fell into some
River

Learning to
Float

My single cell
Loves your single cell-

Let's make life

Complicated

Listen to the Pre-verb
Listen to the Dis-chord
Listen to the Dancers out
Of Africa with drum and trumpet

Even a little is too much
One word
One note
One flex of foot

Listen to the Before

It's just

A flower


It dies

Good

Knight


No

Delusion

I was a butterfly

Flew into a flower

Not a butterfly

Today

Do not know
Where been

Nor am

Nor heading where.

Strange journey

Bow to smell

The little flowers

This living
Decomposition-

Fascination

Long life-
Spume as of
Surf-

Spirit fuming
To air

Become
(Invisible).

No death-
Just disappearance
Beneath a blue surge,
Modernity

Keep
Angular
Geology

Schists

In shards

A sad

But opened

Cave.

Memory

So insignificant
In the scheme
Of things-

Dot in an
Aerial photograph-

Icarus fall
As ignored-

And yet-

Nearest he got
To sun

Was a silly beach

Show

Show

Show these
Gelatinous globes

A glory of colour

Of form

Show

Show

Let them feast
In the face of
Dark
And bathe the
Hole in the sole
With strength

To walk

To walk

To see

Before and
Until

The gifts

Wither.

Unpicked grapes
Upon the vine

Home
Stong
Succulent
Mirth
Mother
Smell
Scent
Milllions microbes
All alive
Love
Keep
J

I talk to the trees

They ignore me-

Chattering
Together

Giving up more

No change

Drop all
Unscathed by
Vagaries

Divine indifference

Unscathed
All dropped

Indifference
Divine

Look at wall

Drop all
Divine indifference

Unscathed

Birds

Trees

Names

Mean

Nothing

To

Me

It was Big I killed the
Alter-Ego-

That depressed, repressed
Beaten Down little Boy.

Pushed him over a cliff

Goodbye

(Don't try this at home)

And I am in love

(Again)

But she no idea has.

How to marry?

How to know

And who we can

Possibly

Be?

You take
The waters-

Let the tears

Flow

Snowdrop

Petal

Insignificant

Pretty

Gone

I sit in the centre
Of the seed
Unafraid to fall

Damp soil welcoming
Bold to open and
March up to sky

Sun
Light
Rain
Warm
New
Growth
Alive alive O
At last
At last
At...

If it is not

Sustenance

Or shelter...

It is art

Outside forever

Is there any

Wanting

To be

Inside?

Yes I have grown
Black hair around
My eyes-

Yes I chew
Bamboo shoots
All day

Yes my belly
Bulges and

Yes my head is
Bald
And proud
(Raises fist)

For I am middle-aged
White
Endangered
Man

And god breathed
Into my nostrils
And I lived

Flowing from my heart

How did
I  fail

1.
Came swimming

Caught in torrent

Clutching fur of
Fuzzy
Brown bear

To the lee of
Turbulence and

Letting go

With gratitude-

Take your cubs
And liberate the
Salmon

As i crawl
Ashore.


2.
What difference
How
The river is crossed?

What fig-leaf rectitude
Required to
Survive?

Chipping shards
Off
Vocabulary

Poem freed

At this late day
Have i begun to
Pray

This world
So beautiful

May

Remain

No home
Go home
No home
To go to
Go home
No time

The corn

Of europe

Has flourished upon

Marrow

Of the

Dead