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

The Heroes
Mostly dead or
Dismembered

Whisper why on
Atlantic wind
West and why
Why

Immovable seat

Earth revolves

Around mind

Howling outside your

Window

Weeds grow all around

Hair sprouts
Ears nose

All but shiny pate

Explosion of seed

Refugees blown high

And wide

To interbreed-

The race evolves
But
Beware the weeds

Heavily courting
Pigeon ****
Puffed up green
Nodding a dance.

Hens peck and posture
Disinterest.

But so many pigeons,
Hens lie

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

With love
And beauty

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

A mere
Million years

This pebble
Will be
Everywhere.

Yesterday
Mountain

Tomorrow
Cave.

Mud on feet
Anywhere trod

Some stupid footprint

For
Science
Or
God

Pebble

Pond

Gables up
Point
Ancient.

Where god(s)
In heaven(s)
May reside

Without freedom
To roam.

How to trammel

And restrict

The power

The awesome

Power of All

Big foot imprints
whorl of
weathered sole
on sand
rock
and heath.

how well will
we let them
disappear
when reddened sky
falls silent

Grandmother
Grandfather

Dead

Dead

Dead

Without taking
A single bowl-

Spoon by spoon

Little by
Little

The big ***

Empties

There is nothing

In the way

I saw your children
Playing
In the Fiery Pit

Unscorched


How the honest
Innocent

Survive

2 particles

Galxies
Apart

Mirror
Exact

Space time
Cannot

Restrain

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

Looking not
At bits-

But soul-

A bit gravelly

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

No foot on a
Board

A boat

No

How to sink

No

Drown

It's just

A flower


It dies

It will tumble and fall.

You wouldbe so safe
In my arms

If we could bubble-

So lonely.

Poem

Gone

Petrified
Forests
Embedding
Under
Sea-

Sea
Creatures
Surmounting­
Peaks-

Slowly,
World
Turning
Upside-
Down

I talk to the trees

They ignore me-

Chattering
Together

My single cell
Loves your single cell-

Let's make life

Complicated

Easy to sit in
Cosy coffin and

Pontificate
Upon the death of
Others-

Easy annihilation
Of
Self
So
Cosily confined

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

A little less skin

A lot more man

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

I was a butterfly

Flew into a flower

Not a butterfly

Today

Yes
Cuddle

Mighty Oak
Grows tiny acorn

Fell into some
River

Learning to
Float

Giving up more

Do not know
Where been

Nor am

Nor heading where.

Strange journey

Bow to smell

The little flowers

Long life-
Spume as of
Surf-

Spirit fuming
To air

Become
(Invisible).

No death-
Just disappearance
Beneath a blue surge,
Modernity

Good

Knight


No

Delusion

How did
I  fail

No change

Drop all
Unscathed by
Vagaries

Divine indifference

Unscathed
All dropped

Indifference
Divine

Look at wall

Drop all
Divine indifference

Unscathed

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

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

This living
Decomposition-

Fascination

And I am in love

(Again)

But she no idea has.

How to marry?

How to know

And who we can

Possibly

Be?

Keep
Angular
Geology

Schists

In shards

A sad

But opened

Cave.

Memory

Flowing from my heart