#304 - remembering to breathe

 

                                                

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remembering to breathe

 

as with the first light shock

of must be unremembered world

a region of the brain kicked in

 

I illustrate without a colour

catching of course

the emptiness

 

no air sweeter

now we go through the moves

take time

dust thick drawn

 

equally under mask

or weight of obligation

 

elementally composed

all through the blood

lovely atmosphere

 

count in out

bring breeze to each lonely cell

a rattle clamouring

against yawn gasp

 

in lovelight

very act thereof

become bellows

then when the needle goes in

remember

 

deep in the didge

and sabacthani gargle

 

icy water

tropic thick

 

come up ashore

two lungs at a time

 

feed a fire

and starve a furnace

so many breathless reasons

 

draw shadows on

so see the breeze

 

under some turning

or weighty tome

 

calm fitful

 

all through the dream I remember

how much I have lost there

 

stop to catch

 

all towards a last

forsaking

 

then open a window

and think