I shall be sleeping soon

And you
Too

So sorry to bring
This news

But I shall be sleeping soon


With you

So tired
So sleepy
And curled
Your *******
And my arms
All around.

Too tired for
Thought
And only the
Whisp of hair
Curled
Mirror whorl to
Ear

Match to fierce
Tornado
Passion

And so tired
So sleepy-
Disarmed

Sleepy eyes, Bear
Sleepy eyes,

Sniff the nest,
Winter warm and
Furred

Den and stretch,
Sniff slowly
Spring growth...

Sleepy Bear open
One sticky eye-
Sleepy eye
Unden...

Hungry one shake,

Scratch and rise,
Open sleepy eyes...

Emerge to

Feed

Knot in cherry trunk
Seeping amber.

Insect form
Emboldened forever.

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

Small
Footsteps
Track and trace

Trace and track
Small footsteps

At each day
Rising-
Setting
Sun-

Yes moving

But this
Spinning
Dizzy orb

Under some silly
Starzone

I no longer
Care

Which around which
Goes-

Just this
Small glass
Of ***

Smell of brown earth

Smile came

Cornered

Lost

Followed by

Lady

Followed by

Lost
Lost
Lost

In smile

Smoke
Whorls

Around
Your finger.

Illusion of
Love forever.

Mystically shelled
snails in slime
embrace

And in vast space
galaxies spin
and dance the
fractal same

(On flat dead
man stone
lovers tongue
entwined play
the same nocturnal game)

1
Mike
Adam
Awoke to find
He had transformed
Into a dragon.**

His snoring had set
The bed alight.

He rose quickly.

Melting a toothbrush,
His wings flapped,

Mirrored.

Held down his whole life,
Finally-

He decided to fly

All our silly
Culture

Floats off into
Space

Little crystal
From on high,
Atmospheric;

Icycling down
To ground and
Fluffing the land,

One yellow crocus
Brave above light
White.

Then to compact
Hard,
Thus to ice
Slipping unsuitable shoes

And slushing,
Dissolving

Feeding drains-

The miracle and metamorphoses of

Water

Timespace illusory

Why so deluded?

2
Time existence flow

Only now!

Only now!

On the head-tops

Butter softens and melts
And slides around the body
And slips between live slices
To internal organs

And in a gentle
Somersault

Hearts revolve and redden-
Arteries untangle and the
Pump beats
Tattoos

Sleight scrape
Snail
Over broken glass.

Power of bulb

Spring dropping snow

Where does the cherry blossom go?

Why with the maple leaf
and the fruit missed by
bird and hand-

Back to earth
to soil new
generation

The long dead poppy up-
form beautiful youth

I shall not fashion

Molten steel to

Fix lone phrase

In seabed.

Though made of
Solid sod

An airy humus
Spirals

On thermals

To kiss

An orange

Sun

Where he walks
Flowers bloom-

Beyond the Ox,
Trod in splat

Each seed and tree
Throws colour on

Universal Blank.


O blanket of Stars
Eternity beckons,

Your sparking Eyes
Shine

Recalling now
Your smiling
Lips
And smileless
Eyes

Words and notes
Have no owners

They waft through
Souls picking up
Flavors

Surf on minds
Developing
Patina

Slither along cultures
Taking on
Color

Glide with history
Collecting
Tone

Words and notes
Have no owners

They waft through
Souls picking up
Flavors

Surf on minds
Developing
Patina

Slither along cultures
Taking on
Color

Glide with history
Collecting
Tone

The old who,
In their youth were
Pride and beauty
In fateful combination-

Now stare in silent
Contemplation at the
Embers of a life unlived
And wonder how the
Years flowed making
Furrows of their skin

Nary a rime
On the grass-

Barely a ****
In the trees

Hotter and
Wetter
Each passing
Winter-

When will this
Be Mars?

No pleasure

Too little pain

Mediocre song

So sad

Full moon
Again

Darling moon in
Such a hurry

Through the years

Scoop up water
From puddled rain

Moon peeps over
Left shoulder-

Reflected-

No drink

Moon and water
Filter through fingers

Leaving only grit

This body is the
Flower of the Soul,
Critical Mass desirous
Of Being.

No shame in the Flower,
Full blooming or
Fading,
Petals droop, running to
Seed.

The End comes swiftly,
Nitrogen gravitates to
Tuber.

O Flowering Soul,
Dead and Alive-
Your Beauty fumes as
Spirit to Sky

Estuary boils mist
Onshore.

Pier obscure.

Hidden-

Only zero and one
Betray my place

This living
Decomposition-

Fascination

Old **** sparrer

Returning thru
Rubble and

The deafening madness

To roost.

Here
Hen
Is home.

Egg

Gone away

Mike

Under water-
Poetic straw
Barely breathing-

Our words entangle
Like lovers

But not limbs-

Crystal love
Ice in tumbler,
Libation.

Goddess Poetry-
Anoint her head with oil

Bless our poor efforts with

Eloquence

And I am deaf too
and too dumb to speak
kind loud and slow
to your yearning ear

And also blind too
with distance unsighted
this burgeoning passion
too easily blighted

No language too pure
no dissonant rhyming
no sentence may capture
your precious flower

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

Man jumps in

How the world has changed

Oh we have met before my love
we met and merged before
became one many times before
spring fever shook the
tree of desire and the hot
red mist descended and
lusted in our eyes

Bodies entwined
vine and tree become one
once again in breathless love
come see the parting of the
limbs of tree and clinging
vine venerating old old bark

Oh how have we met beneath the
full budding trees
dripping red dawn the dew all
honey sweet the sweet dew

Sap rising kissing leaves to life
veins throbbing chrysalis
bursting to life the bears
and bees ******* honeyed flower
caressing the breeze oh this is
how we met our endless cycle of
love and being

Natural children we play in
natures rhythm we sing
the day the bright sun-blue day
we sing and whistle the black
night stars into twinkling being

This is how we met full summered
in the honeydewed grass of orange dawn
the unnaccountable wind (whence, hence?)
and yellowing golden crimson leaves
blown by the gleaning breeze to
nitrogen the earth at tree feet

Oh yes my love well met we were
caved furry bears nuzzling the winter
emaciating the cold steel dawn and
clung together in sleepy hungry comfort

In all the rhythm of our seasons
oh how we have met and merged
and being one enfolded
in the breast of world
in the sensuous fall and resolution
of the roundish cyclical earthly ball

Squeezing out words

Paint tube

Picture

Hoping to see

Victoria park was countryside
city boy

Conkers fall
wild squirrel
true totem

Wild and free
park leaping
iron railings

Sleeping dark winter away
nut stored
wild and seeming free

On the pipe
Perched as if

Grvity
The world

Joked

Magpie
Piebald

Spoke to crow
No grow
Go,

My waste pipe dream
Warm dawn air
Stench of violets
And spring.

You and I
Magpie

Brave in the dawn.

Outside galaxies
Staggering sun
To sun

Seeping through the
spongiform

Water and limestone
salts and
calcification

Accumulated wealth of
language.

Oh, my girl,
put those hungry eyes away

So hungry

Young women

So old!

So old!

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

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

A little less skin

A lot more man

Higgledy piggledy
Hither and yon

Feeding and
Nesting and
Breeding and
Gone

Higgledy piggledy
Hither and yon

Dropping on blanket
And picnic
Undone

Neck deep in estuarine mud
freedom curtailed
curtained, twitched,
every move seen,

unsanctioned the
wild days of sure
autonomy undone,
frozen again in
the slavedom of social.

My country undone,
citizens come to be
clients of the state

Moon keeps moving

Why not stay still?

Aha

Moving

Movement

Life

Water and sky

Take tree
Outline

And shine