#224 - in a heartbeat

 

                                           

13.viii.20

224

in a heartbeat

sleep to dream again

 

for Shari Kocher

 

 

unload from the nose

of a novelty plane

(we had been wondering how to get off

… all our duty free

 

… and now afoot in the ellipsis

 

department store of everyone’s mother

and lost the way

TO TRAINS

or

to the upper air

 

bracket open for life

 

on childhood kneehigh

to escaliwagulator

 

most of our luggage is with us now

some carry-on still gone

 

kept waking

as if to where?

 

the fire re-lit heard rooms away

 

it’s fading

I am falling from it

wear a mask in the day

 

things remembered are not either

none of this ever

oboe and cello – tangle of chords

 

in here

scratch of the surface

land of the dream is deep

the book I’m in right now

far and way

centuries of

the seas

hills over

like a moon goes

fixing firmament

 

scribble and drip

is it treachery to tell?

 

up to the old heartbeat tricks

which are as well as may be

 

dream told can’t be the one that was

this cannot be the way