Wednesday, 29 April 2026

#2312 -- things become other

 



2312

7.119

30.iv.26

things become other

 

and self and away

 

the object in midst

 

look, see poem in the thing

in all events

much missed

 

lay tables for conversion

the this in the that

 

other in thing

 

imagine a next

 

is passing into our sky

just to look

if only

 

see thing and it’s gone

 

say it now and it’s said

 

that’s all


Tuesday, 28 April 2026

#2311 -- only slightly briefly here

 



2311

7.118

29.iv.26

only slightly briefly here

 

have you seen how the sky

is falling away

it falls up

 

the tree as curious, inscribed

wants another world

 

all other sorts of lines

and a splash

 

have you noticed a moon’s made off

better be dead elsewhere, moon thinks

 

I feel it too

the day gone out of my head

 

revolving like the bricks there

climbing as if a wall

 

imagine heavens or none

 

only ever partly me

a strange religious garb

 

voice thrown

free of days

imagine!

 

minded else and always

 

shadow on a rock, tin bird

 

we are surviving by way of amazement

 

we’re all so far gone


Monday, 27 April 2026

#2310 -- my loose wire

 


 

2310

7.117

28.iv.26

my loose wire

 

you could call it a kind of antenna

sensitive as twitch

 

will we test it?

 

a crimp and twang

 

you must imagine

one to another connects

 

my loose wire harnesses bright light

 

it sets apart

not all are so equipped

 

for tragedy, for triumph

 

speak of it lightly as if

 

conducts in a bucket with salt

 

nothing magnetic but attaches

 

a string tuned to some other world

 

hook up here

some solder

 

it’s live, we’re in real time

 

look at a number and wonder which

 

a tether end rescue

it’s to thrill

 

friends haul me out

 

tune in!


Sunday, 26 April 2026

#2309 -- in places we forbid ourselves

 



2309

7.116

27.iv.26

in places we forbid ourselves

 

the moon without a suit

 

no void for me

 

midden deep by mind’s eye

 

a king within a queen

 

lords leap

 

can I be the blood

but not

 

how can I be in a body? 

 

can this be someone else?

and such a day as

burrow, hutch, forebear

 

to hammock a question

take my time to tell

 

fog up and here we’re bitten

out of pants and onto glory

 

I cannot inhabit this moment forever

 

cannot sit upon a star

 

though wish the book up bright

                  and sing

 

far up a tree

 

may I then live in the words on the wall

 

how elsewhere?  how here?






Saturday, 25 April 2026

#2308 -- in a lit mist

 



2308

7.115

26.iv.26

in a lit mist

wallaby weather

 

show treetops

cast the eye

 

and there’s a catch of call-it-cloud

with all the sun shone through

 

afoot fresh mown

eyes up

 

it was tide of life

to lift our still

 

out along a limb

abroad

 

fearless as birds

whom the air must catch

 

I’d never call it falling

 

there was a house sat up

a tilt at will

 

the wherewithal so often

 

in all this breathing world


Friday, 24 April 2026

#2307 - when I was a tree

 



2307

7.114

25.iv.26

when I was a tree

 

is it so long since


when you were

 

this was an effortless thing

 

and all the choices of heaven put out

with cloud and falls of leaf

with light

 

when we were seed

and sought a sky

then o then, mindless

upwardly mobile

 

traffic of paw and claw

of up cargoes into night

 

all directional the day

 

much lived in we were

ask the bird

 

as off on a wish, let’s say

 

the world ran shabby round

nor true nor false

but all between

 

rain to jewel tip

if a sun

 

that was when we shone


 











Thursday, 23 April 2026

#2306 -- in a mirror meet them



 



2306

7.113

24.iv.26

in a mirror meet them

 

the ones have been

                or could

 

we dive for the depths

by hunch flinch wink

 

cap out of hand

mendicant

 

the young so beautiful we were

lines of age tell all

 

eyes otherworldly

 

there’s a net of light

 

all names abandoned

and the animal too

 

griefly, give grimace

 

consider orientation capacity

 

it is a place of danger

 

in my own voice and elsewhere

 

useless, all that time in the mirror

 

what are we?

glimmer folk?

 

in a mirror we meet

who will you be then?

 

where will I hide my light?