#345 - picturesque views of County Aftertrim

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picturesque views of County Aftertrim

 

the gods themselves with us do dwell

       – Marvell                                     

 

a have at

garden and the bush

 

weeds to both

who’ll call?

 

seedhead creep

and borderless blur

 

the scattering of my enemies

at bone rise

 

met a first thing wallaby

shy and this was the beginning

 

webs in the underdread

all selves considered

 

call come rain

now we’re at home

make it official

 

blade is a moment but

lost weekends and back to work

 

cultivate attitude

no catch

leave the rake

must mulch

all will

 

grow misted

and Marvell’s mower came

(luxurious man)

 

walk the day over

make sorts of path

and sweep

for a little destiny

 

here as never before

 

barkfalls

cicada sayso still

 

come creekdeep

here edge of the weather

 

greeblies all outed

lost things found in the undergrass

 

would sting but no way

trousers now

 

and the day blew through

it was off

took cloud height

 

I imagine the forest and folk before

words, stories to a winter fire

 

new in-trickeries of flight

 

roar engine under bum

or oops and there-goes-tail

 

and telling the rain back up

 

trim in among the wonders

and here we are

clear verbiage

edgewise phrase let in

 

wormwatch for the kookas wired

 

me missing in the action

a jungle still beside