The little ***
You gave

White with red
Flower-

Kept it so long
The glaze cracked.

Bet you are
Improved too

By a few
Laughing lines

Besotted
By the graceful
Curve of
Your eyelash-

You can see no further

The best is what I
Forgot.

So forgotten the
Beautiful words
Drunk down and uttered
In foolish sleep.

The best already forgot
The mad old man
Of love and giving

His teeth old bald
Man ripped word from
Your white bodice
Must now
(Please god, please girl)

Be forgiven

Beyond the known universe

Is love

Black ravens
attack black dog-

Squirrels chase,
spiralling trees.

Holy days in the park

Canal towpath
everyday worn by
man boots-
the dray horse long gone
the timber barge drowned.

Sat on grass
beneath a canopy of leaf

beneath the body
seedling grows

fifty years immobile
tree grow high, wide

sitting seeing far
with tree high eye

Sat on grass
beneath canopy
leaf

under body
seedling grows

fifty year
immobile
tree grows high

wide

sitting seeing far
with tree high eye

Itch
Scratch

A rash calf-

It took years for
The bark to spread-
Leg-trunk-head

Til roots sank from
Foot soles to
Molten core of iron-

For limbs to sprout from
Eyes-ears-mouth to
Foliate-

For boy to man
To grow-

Begin rustling

To speak or
Scream into the
Howling wind

Stormy petrel albatross curlew skylark martin swift swallow robin sparrow raven crow falcon heron stork eagle vulture budgie parrot gull penguin puffin hawk
                                     Birds
And poets
Flutter
And trill

Was your baby
an arm here
torso
head over there
some other limbs or
organs tomorrow

To be stitched together
in a week or year
or two?

And was that baby
(perhaps ugly as sin)
beautiful to you?

Pah!

You come out whole
my little wordlings

I kiss you on your
knotty spine and
leave

Bon chance
bon voyage

Have a good life
hope some reader
loves you

Contemplating moon
On my birthday

1
Full moon
Haloed by cloud

60 years on the planet.

Who am I?

2
Tonight the clouds ride
Behind the moon.

Universe
Inverted.

3
Moonlight is sun
Pouring out,

Dimpled mirror,
Dead to light.

4
A good sleep last night

Dark and dreamless
Dark and dreamless

5
Sun shone
Directly on my face.

Do not be sad,
Moon-

This is
Grace

Full
The moon

Full to aurora
Bursting

The small i
Dormant this
Decade and
More

Leaf in order
I

Shall flower
And fruit
In order

Spreading
Benificence

At last

Across the land

Orange leaves
Decorate
The door mat

I blame the moon.

Her sinuous rhythm
In tune-
You move to her
*****-
Her Face your Mirror.

My Gravity slips and
We tumble Cold
Into Space

Scattering of pink petals
On harsh grey pavement

Cherry flower



Falls-

Leaves
Grieve and
Grow

Somehow

Big ego on
small blue dot
in lost space.

Infinity undone
no finish no
perfect end.

This flag unfurled
no wind no
eye no mind
to see
movement
desire
undone.

Lust run down
and flagging
furled folded
and gone.

Mind set free
unfettered
infinite innocence.

Robin on cemetery wall

Red breast swelling

Over the dead

Between the bells
Appalled

Between the bells
Marking time

Between the chimes
Of birth
Between the chine

I lie

Dead
Dead
Alive

Between the tinkling
Alarming
Strokes
Of brass
And lime

Alone scream
Pink guts slime
Umbilical.

Dead
Dessicated

The only
Thing

Life

Death

I love you

This is where it ends
Goodbye.

This in new beginning

We ran like silly girls
Us children
You and I

Silly not I not girls
Nor boys

Just silly spirits
Singing
In the dawn.

It is time you say
"I love you",
Beyond time I told you so.

This landscape we painted,
Created, new

The only thing
Made in 14 billion years...

Our uniqueness blinking
A long ago star

Unmoving

Nor moved

By the great

Swirling mass

Of events.

Still
In the Centre

Of life
Of death.

Actions
Given
And performed

(Reluctant heroes
Arise)

And all
In pursuit

Of

Nought

How accents
And landscapes
Merge and change

20  miles
And incomprehensible

Born on the river

King Thames.

Floated to the estuary.

Time to die

Or return?

Salmon

In a dark house
a dank cellar
I dreamt my death

Ten years old
and dead already

Near fifty years on
oh lord let me birth

A grotesquerie of time
Sculpted faces
Litter the landscape.

Classical columns stand
Jagged and broken or lie
Forlorn.

A soft oriental anxiety
Hangs in clouds over yhe scene,

And all the waves of
History fall.

The shift proceeds-
A drunken monk
Misdeliberates his
Kung Fu.

All is change
All balance is wobble-
The sun sets-uncaring

The last fuel

A bonfire of
Inanities-

An egg cracks

Loud as thunder-

Phoenix

Still - born

Kundalini ran off with
Satori and bred
Enlightenment on
Some far-off
Mountain peak,
Which left me,
Empty as a shell,
Devoid of both
Oyster meat and
Pearl

Inhale my nostril,
Give/take life
For
From
Me.

Young Adam
Made of self

Of other,

How long
Such generation
Re-makes
A man

Wind

See the tree

Move

Just slip out the back
Union Jack

Fell in

Laughing

Encased in bone
Dome-

Rarest hour of
Human tremor
Cracks the
Skull.

Egged on-

A fluttering
Feel

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-

Molten iron
Drunk-

Liver made
Of sterner stuff.

Lick earth-
Taster who-
What

You are-

Lick bark-
Grow tree

Love.

Before uni
Multi
Any verse-

Burrowing down
To core

Love

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...

Small tree

I open door

Burst of feathers

Decades empty
Of
Achievement.

Somewhere
Far off

A dung beetle rolls
Rhino stuff

To feed
Hungry roots
Of

Elephant grass

Intoxication of the bee

Dancing lavender
In the hive

Cracked glacier

Rift in ocean floor

Yes we parted

When?

Who knew the drift

Apart

Would grind

Aeons

And bleed

Hearts dry

Flower open

Bee-line

Delicate pink

Petals

Yellow stamen

Sticky with
Sweet bee

Scent
From heaven.

How pollen clings to

Yellow black fur.

Without love
A bulging of
Seedling sprouts.

Murmur of prayer

Heard

Where?

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

Tide arrives

Take a breath,
Deep

Engulfed within the Ocean,
Unconsciousness

Let it

Yes
Fond remembrances,
As of war.

It was love,
It was,

And yet,
On reflection,

Goodbye to you
All

Goodbye
And fare thee
Well.

Carp iced under pond
Stare folorn with
Milky eyes-

Suspended-

Waiting on
Warming dawn of

Spring

On pigeon toes
sent back the
little money
borrowed to
survive the day.

Spikes on Jesus' head
Rio

Just wrong.

Suffer the little birdies
to **** all over me.

Live in a cave
In high
Himalyas-

Put your machines
In a bag

And drop them

Down a
Responsible
Ravine--

After a time
Hear the gentle

****** and
Smash

Of the genocidal
Genes

Created by
We

Crow on my shoulder

Caw caw

What are you waiting for?