#2378 -- it's only ever in the mirror

 

2378

7.185

5.vii.26

it’s only ever in the mirror

 

eyes of one’s own light

 

those who are gone

 

it’s only in mirror

the well of time lies flat, upstanding

 

see where you’re from, their faces

 

see the corridors of menace

 

you can almost hear

 

account for a crash

 

the trouble, dust up

 

same old chimney fits

 

the leaflessness

a craggy loft of

 

it’s only in the mirror

infinite regression

 

it’s every glance for reminiscence

 

duck then you’ll have to imagine

world still there

 

waffily yet

 

the cri de coeur wake up

 

and dare you

double dare you

 

it’s only ever in the mirror

we see who’s behind it all

 

 

#2377 -- abrupt with light

 

2377

7.184

4.vii.26

abrupt with light

 

here we are at that hour again

come for none

 

lost to another world

 

here’s the stain of it

 

come round as if to mock our sky

as a flag to tatters would

 

skinbrink

tender with the touch

still warm from under

 

blur to bright

 

frame with a window

the trouble of a tree gone up

 

real things like a sun for

 

feathers spread

wings heard not seen

 

then a whiff of self to show

 

clocks to chase down, away

 

it’s three times we’ll deny them

crow

 

present, unaccounted

snuck from

 

there were no hours before

no there but here

 

there was no now

#2376 -- have you noticed how a name fades?

 

2376

7.183

3.vii.26

have you noticed how a name fades?

 

cherished words are gone

 

is there where they sing still?

 

paths strewn with self

yet few will admit

 

sharp edges

 

things called to their fanfare, torture

just as we invent

 

things themselves other than as were

 

often now unnameable

 

see it in leaflight

peer through a cloud

 

en plein air

in plain sight

 

what are we left with?

reach out

touch

say one last time

our secret

 

we smooth out a skin

we write

 

I’ll keep it for my always

under an ever breath

 

#2373 - walk into the dark

 

2375

7.182

2.vii.26

walk into the dark

 

and welcome

know my own way

make a wisdom of it

 

old friend the song

wide eyed again

 

things are lost just as much of the dark

 

hear the music there

be winter

be aware

 

the dark’s not quite a silence

 

reach out for what you know must be

the dark is where we were before

 

I’m waving to them

they can’t see

 

dot dot dot

 

things rise and fall in it

 

here is all we touch

it’s almost as if having fallen this far

 

make out just a shape

 

imagination is required

 

some will shut theirs for this

#2374 -- poem of the manifest wonders

 

2374

7.181

1.vii.26

poem of the manifest wonders  

 

the gladdening does brightly

wends a wingéd way

with take your turn and time

there’s no either ending

all sorts of things in the sky

it’s everywhere – look up!

 

we, too, hurtle, furred with moss

 

I’m throwing a question mark over it all

that’s the lifted leg, sure for a sign

 

all under the aegis of world, just this

 

a little smoke, wires overhead

music already in the ears

 

we’re waiting for the machine still

 

a vigorous allegro

 

let me share my concerns

 

one leaf leads to another

as any insect knows

 

breathe in!

 

imagine my surprise at a voice

someone speaks my language

 

we are the survivors they found

             so far

 

I keep a path in memory

that’s just to know where we are

 

shade and sun

a dapple, breeze

 

they say that it’s not quite infinite

they haven’t looked closely enough

 

 

#2373 -- hello

 

2373

7.180

30.vi.26

hello

a winter greeting on Worimi country

 

hello wallabies

hello ducks

hello swampy redbeaks

hello thin band of mist

         damp grass

hello far off moo

hello blowie from another season

hello sun and hello bee

although you’re going now

 

hello breakfast – you fruit on the tree

hello lemons too

 

hello sky, cloud, random wings

 

hello gums – keep up

 

hello breeze – be gentle

don’t you know it’s winter down here?

 

hello every body

let me blow you all a kiss

 

hello everyone hiding

nighty night possum clocking off

tuck in, sleepy snake

 

I’ll take that

all miracle and no one’s

you’re absolutely free

 

hello road – run off!

#2372 -- how do we hold a rainbow up?

 

2372

7.179

29.vi.26

how do we hold a rainbow up?

poem for Pride Day

 

there’s music and there are pictures

an amazing selection of words

 

these have all come out of the rainbow

without them where would we be?

 

comedy!

who’s had us laugh all this while?

 

then here’s the gospel of unharm

howsabout everyone just gets to be who they are?

 

it’s not quite no questions asked

but just accept, accept

 

the who I am and where I’m from

not so hard

 

bigots come all shapes, all colours

all of them have to be shamed

 

we’re responsible for our own beliefs

but

do we get to decide what / who / if we’ll eat?

 

rare as a rainbow

what’s left of the weather

often a breeze will have flags away 

 

stick with a pot of gold for us all

but be assured there’s no end

 

but plenty to party on

something for everyone

 

some ask ‘can I myself be remarkable?’

fact is you already are