#110 - under house arrest (at New Normal)

19.4.20

110

under house arrest

at New Normal

still all truths to reconcile

this world for crimes against itself

everyone equally accused

lovely framed in prison windows

(have to make your own)

brush our hair

and clean our teeth

days like any regular

we set these little haiku off

watch them rise

dissolve

suit up for any day out there

will this new world have air?

before no law at all

desert  now jungle again

after the rains

I’m trying out for king of course

keep to the track and round

wear your own path home

under house arrest

including the garden

the bush come back

where I must undiscover the country

an out-of-season blossoming

and let all schools contend

under house arrest

I build a tower of pianos

bring the breath to bear

high ground

best strike an attitude somewhere around now

got up on corona-pony

time to be statue still with

keep in mind

how wide the world

is was

see the winged ones gone

each by careful calculation

none of this at trial disclosed

under house arrest

take all the pulses

little pride swallow, fall

are you dragging the chain?

can’t see the fire to warm by

but know the signs on the wall?

of course, Platonic!

weather it!

every crime is politics

all politics is crime

no shortselling the pumpkins now

futurebright

is the herb I invent

no dollar cost average

you cannot leverage with it

under house arrest

time has lost track of us

I write the old poem again

I love the arrows everywhere

give them all a go

and the creatures unwitting

innocents all

within without our fences

it is by mere bliss they go?

what are we to imagine now?

pumpkiniferous autumn at Markwell

among the butternuts
in plague time

I hear the hammering of those at home
and have these Bunnings thoughts myself
but know I shouldn’t go

it’s sunlight tops the trilling here
a yellow butterfly makes light
of this the moment following

sky grey enough to show its will
it’s sunshine keys the colour
we keep an open window

and let the day in still