#58 - ballet delicate

58

27.2.20

ballet delicate

I carry myself wherever I go

   this particular 

island swamp and continent

o what expanse I am

and thinner than air

these who vector by vector

attend

time is the insect after me

and as innumerable

in a dust mote float

in a sunbeam sing

come dance to me on air as if

gods have gifted for a trial

will dung smoke do?

unknowing mist

and yet they are

not competing

save to be

we’re rarely on the news

or have our picture taken

rise conically  

and here we breed

from puddle

this flighty architecture

as if asteroid landing

to mine the rich ore

drone remote so lonely

in all the rain here home to bring

and under fear they go

too little ever for it

still they are dreamt to be here too

tattoo the air with tribe

a savage art it is to rule

dinosaurs do

very many herbivorous

I will not name diseases

they are unknown to arcane lore

take more of my kind

than others do

I myself can make a cloud

and trick us out of doors

the brush off

the Australian wave

must be my inoculation

to clear the air –

they have no wish to feed on us

twilit  come

grey dusky

crepuscular

tautologous

which kingdom?

ours, of course

I carry myself wherever I go

time is the insect after me

in a dust mote float

in a sunbeam sing

come dance to me on air as if

gods have gifted

I will not name diseases