Stem broken
Flower regards
Peeling varnish
Surfacing
Old table

O lugubrious poet
Take me down
Beyond dog-headed
Beasties

Past styx falling
Twigs
Upon our heads-

Poet take me to
The tense past
Future
And tell me this
Mess I made
Will furnish-
Polished oak-
One more chance

To make amends-

To finally
Post mortem-to
Live again

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-

Some billions of
Years ago
Some star explodes.

Some particle flew
Through the hovel
Window

Burning breakfast.

Pesky super novae,
Irradiating universe.

Whence the calm
Stasis
Of solid state?

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...

Log fire

Love making

Woolskin rug

Loouis Armstrong

Deep Devon

Happy


Once in my life

Death

Release

Crow on my shoulder

Caw caw

What are you waiting for?

I

***

No

*****

Goodbye

Silk

Wine

Smoke
Whorls

Around
Your finger.

Illusion of
Love forever.

Walls you built
Hurt too many times
Walls between your
Eyes
Lapis lazuli

And mine.

Brown skinned girl
Blue eyed
Take up your veil
And shake mine eye

My poor old chords
Have withered and
Dried

No progression
Of singing

No siring

To cry

Anointed
In oil

Bee
Flicking
Glows
Pollen
Laden
Falls

The corn

Of europe

Has flourished upon

Marrow

Of the

Dead

Sky

Blue

Through

Ice

Small tree

I open door

Burst of feathers

The ice remembers-

Holding silly trilobites
In icy grip-

Unfaithful-

Give them up to
Nasty
Warm-blooded
Beasts
Scouring earth.

Give me this-
Ice-
Forget me-
Leave my
Irridescent remains

To pass

The ego fell

Useless

Happy

Summit

Guide

Birds

Trees

Names

Mean

Nothing

To

Me

Chrysanthemum fuschia marigold lobelia begonia hibiscus frangipani poppy

                                Some unnamed wildflower
By the side of a mountain path
In the rain

Smelt once
Never forgotten

And wild garlic plucked in
Fevered hunger

O god

I need your
Earthly connection with
Color and narcissistic
Flour-

Manna from heaven

Zen man
Failed

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

Sleep of the dead-
Grandfather's coat wrapt,
Body sunk into rock.

Deer nuzzle beard,
Fawn lies close
Sharing warmth.


Heat of fire rouses-
Underworld risen to
Surface-

Heaven's low pressure
Sinks to earth.

Loud clash
Angels
Demons-

Tumult of change...

What have we done?

Sun and moon
Equally shine-

Bald head
Reflects

Dimmest light

Out beyond the end
Of verse

Small leaf-

Still moist-

Resting in
My palm

Hugging wolf

We made you

Us.

Mother of twins,
Brother
Son,

Us.

Suckle me now

And walk

Beside

Forever

Sleep

Clouds
Weep

Oh to lay
Hand on bush

Red breast
Through thicket

Strong song
Penetrating

Gloom

I want to hear a poem
Before deafness

To look upon a painting
Before blindness
Fills these eyes

I want to toucha woman
Once more

To bloom and seed

Before the withering

Arises

Evaporate like

Dew

Handhold

Reality

Poem

A first

Wet

Kiss

Love

Give

Grandmother
Grandfather

Dead

Dead

Dead

Butterfly

So brief

No space

No time

Sleep well

And dream

And all
Those microbes
That make and
Form and shake
This little body
Will also

Consume

Water

Pulled by moon

Entranced by
Sun.

I am water

Flowing

Moving

Or stinking
Stagnant.

Like water
Breeding
Moving

Out of Afrique

To Mars

Trust


Ego

Full moon

Once more-

Are you weary?

My empty pillow
Offers

Cold old moon

See-saws

Broiling old sun

Over the hill and

Goes hide to seek

In plain sight

Weeping

Bank

Pebble

Pond

Fell in

Laughing

Fell into some
River

Learning to
Float