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watch and
act
Hanrahan’s had
a hand in this
it was the ice
now seas rise
was the driest
April
it’s the
wettest May
and it’s
falling
all dizzy with
just up
look!
see how we’ve been deprived of sky
moon for a pondfull
clear come late
moon, how’d you
get so full?
pond too!
and what’s that
not wind
not road
?
just like a
creek to be running away
the fires are
coming still
there’s yet a
storm to swim
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I went out in
the hazel wood
apologies to
Yeats
fire in head, I
went
you would
a hundred years
since, more
it was the
hundred acre wood
was a willow breeze
was a roar, not
the wind
we were
reminded
how the creek
told
there was a
star in the after storm
a bulb of fruit
bright yet
lit with some
sun we’ve saved
was frogloud
there was
possum for up
all our friends
basket of them
a wash of rain
I went out tuned
for the song of
it all
was the very
air would sing
hollow and
hilly
hook, berry,
thread
there’s none of
that here now
had to imagine
who would not
join in?
brother and
cousin
and fiddle
to dance
floor of forest
tarn of sky
you can see it
all
can’t you?
the wander
and an age in
that
like a moment
dozing dreamt
how
in a hazel wood
I went out
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a rooster
coo-ee
joy to see the
creek run
hear birds
above
road scoots off
sludge it
moss magnificent
and brighting
in the valley far
lily by pond
rise till
frogs of joy
for chorus
as up with
every tree
hear no barking
now
dial to the
grey –
it’s a gift
I’m an hour
before myself
new season
where we are
I’m adjusting
my day to this
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in various
places
hazard of
hap
in a lit mist
in my own dark
offshirting,
even May
a grapple with
between times
yet to arrive
and having
with my glasses
off
at some beyond
just some few
words at disposal
digging page
with a grief of bones
alive to
possibility
hello so
bye the bye
just making
this up as we go
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what will we
worship today?
draft only
for godsbother
there’s golden
calf, it glows crepuscular
claymation –
there’s your golem fixed
and I, in turn,
adored
else there’s
violence and vengeance
will you choose
fear?
our hero’s just
a god now
so there are
heavens above
very air
upward of
every deity’s a
risk
what will we
worship then?
a lamp of
fruit?
light’s wings?
there is the
tree herself
it’s all around
– that’s what
just the way
things are
some say stray
truth
truth gets away
we’re always
left with this question
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the
importance of elsewhere
and the bounce
between
to here there
whales are
moving the coal about
…very Newcastle
touristic
particle in
orbit
as it is down
here –
the mystery
accord
find yourself doing
it all in a body
still, wonder how
necessary this
can you see
through a word?
got me in a box
again
and again I’ll
have wormed out
there is a
lovely pointlessness to being
you just have
to keep it up
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in a cock
forest
ride Banbury
I have a few
countries run like this
on old rhymes
and guess
call themselves
different
but rod to kiss
of course of
course
have we got
wood, pecker?
take to the day
with a circular saw
pink and frilly
virtues signalled
the pointing of
a stick
think of it a
nether snout
proudly stroke
till true
