2195
7.2
2.i.26
dive
into the day with
bushy brow
bright of tail
like little bird from the
poet’s tree
dive into the every day with
all the song we have
swim the thin air with
draw from the well to be
wise
first light is an age begun
blank one must fill
and who?
with whom?
we, as the everyday people
well past the pub test
with knowledge of our own
forbidding
eyes open
will we know where we are?
yes, no
and all at once
and so
make wild my shining wonders
just to bright your day
2194
7.1
1.i.26
because…
or
thing
I can do, nobody else will
maker’s creed
starting the year before the
sun
are we not all made of a
difference?
my cloud, no other
so set upon for an excuse
every day fashion one
tune in
don’t we make it up as we go?
because he just won’t shut
it
force of nature
strew of debris
so soon gone
of course there’s somewhere
else to be
are other reasons
could have been a this that
even so
everything’s yet to do
arrows have shown the way
time tells
doesn’t it matter we are?
why bother?
don’t ask
what lasts is
sleep’s motive
my dreaming
because
wake to play
are we not so thrown to a
question?
am I not the home of a
doubt?
live it and love it
these are least traces
it’s my dayjob
can’t stop now
think of it in the light of
duty
habit, compulsion, sine
qua non
lovely in leafbright
clearing a sky
I am
must be
witness of a world
that’s my truth to tell
how’s yours?
why else are we here?
why here?
why now?
why not?
2193
6.365
31.xii.25
all of
us living it
midsummer hibernation
lost in the crack between
years
day in a piano perhaps
flat out for a culmination
it’s each as can catch
some have brought their own
bottle
others are spread out over
the page
there’s last of everything
to do
last of wishes too
just as the lizard drinking
a day of all
bright as we are
fed just on echoes now
nothing to prove
abandoned by clocks, by
calendars
float there
or sit up just on a cloud
whistling the while away
2192
6.364
30.xii.25
in the
between of dreams
day as sometimes lit
or brave as
the vanish feast
castle clouds shook down
just the dust unsettled
there’s music through the
shell
there isn’t any waiting
around
reach out, they say
dream on
make the half light
there must be time
in the hidden world
the poem in the stone
in the between of dreams
a dream
live to the wisdom found
there
2191
6.363
29.xii.25
just
let
a new ‘theory’
and nothing to do with the dao
just let…
that’s what they’re saying
all innocence to begin
let the moon shine
rest your sling
let the stars turn
journey on
the river run
tree towards its sky
walk by
unwill
float above the world
just let the child drown in
the well
none of your business
nothing you can do
let the angry mob with the pitchforks
and torches
let them wander off, go feral
a people vote themselves
away
who cares?
they come in the night for
your children
just let them
let the lightbulb rot
the coal burn
seas rise
who could care if anything’s
known
bring on the storms
‘wrack thy cheeks’ and so on
let fists at spouse
let wars rage
just let the fuckers away
with it all
lie down
let the shit pour over
all is doom and why deny?
let the whole world crash
and burn
all this fizzles the wits
let’s not!
why not give a toss?
stand up!
witness!
do your best!
let the moon shine
rest your sling
let the stars turn
may one light my way
take no for answer bad days
otherwise
do as you please
