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something
is going to kill me
who knows
where when how it will
nor ever wicked
but death’s true!
it happens like shit does
sometimes too polite to
mention
this finality and ours
like a last certificate
time notional in stone
and gets a date
(a year at least)
nor roll the dice
collect, go on
just one more test
I’ve passed
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riddle
of the idyll
another concert piece for Glazunov’s
‘Idyll for horns and strings in D maj’
I work at a fold in the day
that’s where we’ve gone
say grove
say bee loud
dragon flit
all the weight of the past
all the future lifts
be ripe
and let a breeze here
feather fall and leaf
set off on the spot
so then there’s this tune
the idyll sticks
for divination
fallen till the ground
a dusk
then creekside
and even in the undertuck
glow with the light lasting
day
run rings around myself just
now
there’s a loose end tied
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here
for the gone
(only ever a draft)
for godsbother
grow old? not grow old?
that’s a joke with no butt
not here because they
followed orders
a flag, they were singing
we all are
even the idea of memory
wearies
we’re the remainder
still under construction
then it’s carry one, carry
another
notice how they divide?
you’d like to think there’s
some point to it
there is immortal thinking
and whom can we thank?
‘happy funeral’ some may
have said
but these are your stone
cold facts
life ends in tragedy, you
know
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csókolom
in life as when
they will always be with me
a question never asked
they’re remembering
in the dream
and answer with their eyes
of course
I bring the knot
they fix the risk
and where we disaffect
trick time and truth to be with
the question never asked before
I keep a face soft focus
some one word
talisman
no speech required
such eye to solace
I know it can’t be so for some
that’s my luck
and some will say
theirs in mine
now they’re gone as well
a tune too
for the conjure up
as were a shadow cast
it’s my hoof makes the way today
my claws catch up the tree
or in a suit that shines
blue as the feral sky
time is run by some least grief
we hand it to a clock
it’s gone
then letting go but holding
to their little fire
kept for our dark
the singing at dawn
so a new day begins
they are of light
a clouds weight haul along
so I will be with them
and answered in their eyes
kept for the dark
just so as we may dream
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out of
nowhere
or just where we are
the words
ancestral always
set of dew
and a cloud made midst
one travels up a tree
all of us prophetic
typically wrong
a phrase turns
or the other way round
outside in downside up
o heavens!
a stave and notes set out
of the blue
first flight and then this
song
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kookaburra
thudfall
little snake at its least for
a meal
whereas
I’m hit with the news
first thing
unmusic
seems clumsy
but we’re on a roll
it’s up with the dinosaur
bones
they still rule
we dance
a bullet really flies
bombs fall
my fan’s a rumble sun
rare earths!
there’s an ache to your doze
pleasant yet
a beakhold on the day then
that’s breakfast
to trick yourself awake
have you noticed how
when there’s no money
few care?
that’s why it’s safe to be
here
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a lot
of stillness going on
in a little forest hiding
winter slant
forest of this that the
other
at its own throat
always falling to rise
breathless up then
nowhere else in the whole
wide
nothing to match
a cleft and tuck
grown its own way
with the weather
a little corner of the sun
and every day’s to light
some forest in my hiding
counting till ready or not
signatures left lying
to be’s to do today
