Middle

End-

No such thing

In real life...

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

Birds

Trees

Names

Mean

Nothing

To

Me

And god breathed
Into my nostrils
And I lived

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

Outside forever

Is there any

Wanting

To be

Inside?

At this late day
Have i begun to
Pray

This world
So beautiful

May

Remain

You take
The waters-

Let the tears

Flow

And I am not Adam

But god breathed anyway

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...

How often have I
Curled up

And cried

Like

A man

A real man

Heart fresh as

Spring-


Waters

Re-birthing,

Baptising

i

If it is not

Sustenance

Or shelter...

It is art

The corn

Of europe

Has flourished upon

Marrow

Of the

Dead

Teeming mass of humanity

Ember glow

Lifted to cold

Darkness

Mere million years

And gone

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

Chipping shards
Off
Vocabulary

Poem freed

Stone upon

Stone.

Castle.

Drop the past.

Rubble.

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?

Lips

Moist

Estuary boils mist
Onshore.

Pier obscure.

Hidden-

Only zero and one
Betray my place

Addled
Scrambled

Need to be
Coddled

O woman

Unravel
Your egg

Perfect
Embryonic
Shell-

The word
That emerged

From bottomed

Time

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.

In a dark place

I found

Your candle.

Lit

Way clear.

Bud

Open

Blink at sun-

Fall to ground

Unencumbered

By fear-

Thought.


Trees bend,

Expose the

Heartwood

O how I miss
The cheesy moon

Before we spotted
Your lovely face
With boots

And lit your
Terrible darkness.

Dearest sphere I
Feel now even
Older than thou...

Nobody heard

Who was it

That fell in the woods?

I look forward to
The annihilation
Of my species.

Not too late?

All our silly
Culture

Floats off into
Space

Donkey named Ginny.

Five years and sick,
Convalescent friend.

Wagon wheel spreads
Chocolate around the mouth.

Today round clock
Melts,
Giraffe open drawers in neck.

No longer five
But sixty plus

And bewildering motion,
Time and dizzy change,

Endless assault,
Uni-linear movement.

Ever longing to stroke
Her shaggy muzzle.

Make not your
Work
Of fluff
Nor lint...

Make with hammer
Chisel

Ring vibrations
Ringing ears

Bells of wonder
Bloodied knuckles

Carving granite
Upholding earth

Bellow blowing
Moondust surface

Soothing marble to
Graven show

Scrawled
Parchment

War years

Crumbling
Heat

In palm


Crumpled-
My strength

Discard mellowed fibre
In roadside

Bin

Cruel life.

Life cruel.

Flying dragon
Launches-

Arch predator on the
Miniscule

Sky

Blue

Through

Ice

Smoke
Whorls

Around
Your finger.

Illusion of
Love forever.

To be a strong tree

When all around

Trees keel over

Dead

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

Kisses hot weld
Some cracks

Filigree gold fill
And line

Some iced crevace
Open sore

Olden heart not wholly pure
Yet not beyond repair

It is nice

That you do

English

Like space

Expands

Fire the arrow
To burial.

Pull bowstring taut

And release.

Broken arrow,
Going nowhere.

O where to die?

Right here?

O how to die well
Right here.

Useless archer
Failed to live
Failed to die-

Broken arrow
Failed to fly-

Goldie
Golden eagle
Escaped london
Zoo.

Per hed in park,
Recaptured.

Zoo
London

This eagle
Will not
Come
Back

Drooping form of
Lovely yellows

We know you die
And rot.

And reform-

Your sweetened corms

Re-arrange and
Flourish

How long

How long to
Delight the eye

Deform and redirect
Life force

From basalt
Salt

To opened skies?

My love grows
With your opening
And dies
In time

And dies
Together

And alone
In time

Full moon

Once more-

Are you weary?

My empty pillow
Offers

Head in ice

Wake me when it

Stops

Small mouse
Lapping at

Bird bath

Pair of jays
Fight pair of magpies-

Eggs-

Lime tree outside
The window