#169 - true vine

19.6.20

169

true vine

for gosbother

I become omen 

lose the thread

my own adventure

it’s like luck lost

could have been any line

once I was a trick of light

tangle of old tunes

I become a secret charm

become the bones

bury my own  

I touch a chord and strum

later dig

find the ass’s ears

I am the aum truth light

get to be a hunch

residue like cordite

and dusting for the prints

I become compost, worm it, break down

travel to the top of the tree

branch out in the leaflight

I become another animal altogether 

lose a word and others find me

I become an open book  

ray of sunshine

become became

better than the thing I lost

and cannot name

I was a great leap forward once

made hammer and sickle starving train

then I was aghast at myself

wilderness wishes!

precious mettle

winter it

become a hibernant

crawl out

unhutch

I take the time   

time takes me till  

plough a dizzy field

orb spin

and web the ways between

I’m one thing and another  

not the arrow though

I have fallen for old tricks

(guilt in the forgetting)

I took the land

and I was robbed

far enough back

we were all tree

the ancestors are legion

carve you up without blinking

and I was one of them

became trope

and quivered with

I floated cloud smoke

wisp away

I was carnival, a party – just add life

became a wishing trap  

stumbled onto over myself

in the stacks

tripped under

I have been alone with this skin

and became a lost cause

buzzword

tangle am

was I the little bird led us – lark rise?

or else some insect snack?

made fish mid-Cambrian

I’ve been a secret

was long gone

then you opened at this page

everywhere but vanishing

so you have to guess

I’ve been a secret well kept 

and mostly had to share

wasn’t I majestic to queen it?

a dog barked out of the screen

I was bitten by the bullet

so laid down these lines here

in the beginning

what was the word?

this I ends up no I at all

couple of first thing wallabies thud

tree down and hollow under

out of the picture stage left