Friday, 6 August 2021

#583 - midden living

 



7.viii.21

583

2.218

three poems

and two that became one

 

midden living


in dreams the gone know themselves

we can’t catch up with them

 

they know us and we live

in dreams

like marrow

shells to sand

 

in the pockets of the day

 

I found this coin worn

such that saw myself

there shining

so must have been the king

 

dry leaf that was a forest before

 

it was a well deep thing

I dived

so swam

the pockets of the day

 

toys, teething rings

questions not to answer with time

 

dusty, grubby even

won’t know where hands have been

in pockets

 

anonymous

I won’t tell

 

as a voice is never lost

but wheels the world round

 

the hundred billion still of us

 

map through the wash

a string of hearts

hold some smoke for when

 

a list become a plan

later on told for a story

 

billabong, veranda

the bladder of the ball

 

in the pockets of the day

keep weather

tricks of light

 

little mazes and kaleidoscope

 

country, seaside

travels for luck

all in this less than a book

frayed, take that track, tug, no

 

crumbs of the collected world

the breathlessness thereof

 

in a pocket find

snake of the day

parts of my lost watch

 

a song

(at least some lyrics, chords)

birds to go with

 

music – a far land

 

names of the towns

of the people

lost

 

the city of my father’s memory

must for instance persist

                 on foot

 

and the old lands fled

kingdoms of storybook violence

 

a conch to ear

and deep, so as to pay

 

…remember the words

and they’re gone

 

in days of the laundry

hung to dry

(front for those pockets)

 

all seasons of the clock

 

marbles – alleys and onionskin

tombowlers – gas giants

other suns

 

the handkerchief folded over itself

so all the outside’s in

and carry this little universe

 

some say keep a dream alive

picture and folded again

 

I know you’re tuning into me

I make the static myself

 

here’s a kind of everywhere

 

sun too glorious not to be out in

 

a pocket of the day


 


 

in the pockets of the day

 

I found this coin worn

such that saw myself

there shining

so must have been the king

 

dry leaf that was a forest before

 

it was a well deep thing

I dived

so swam

the pockets of the day

 

toys, teething rings

questions not to answer with time

 

dusty, grubby even

won’t know where hands have been

in pockets

 

a map through the wash

a string of hearts

hold some smoke for later

a list become a plan

later on told for a story

 

billabong, veranda

the bladder of the ball

 

in the pockets of the day

keep weather

tricks of light

 

little mazes and kaleidoscopes

 

country, seaside

travels for luck

all in this less than a book

 

crumbs of the collected world

the breathlessness thereof

 

snake of the day

parts of my lost watch

 

song

(at least some lyrics, chords)

and the birds to go with

 

music – a far land

 

names of the towns

of the people

lost

 

a shell to ear

and deep, so as to pay

 

in days of the laundry

(a front for those pockets)

hung to dry

all seasons of the clock

 

marbles – alleys and onionskin

tombowlers – gas giants

other suns

 

the handkerchief folded over itself

so all the outside’s in

and carry this little universe

 

some say keep a dream alive

picture and folded again



 

midden living

 

in dreams the gone know themselves

we can’t catch up with them

 

they know us and we live

in dreams

 

anonymous

I won’t tell

 

as a voice is never lost

but wheels the world round

 

the hundred billion still of us

 

the town of my father’s memory

must for instance persist

                 on foot

 

and the old lands fled

kingdoms of storybook violence

 

remember the words

and they’re gone

 

I know you’re tuning into me

I make the static myself

 

here’s a kind of everywhere

 

sun too glorious not to be out in

 

a pocket of the day

 




 

woken never to where we were

 

the city is built every day

just for me

the bush, the garden too

this body forth among

 

and indoors too

it’s not that I want that shop

but to steer by

 

I lose my way

so ask

 

it is another country

I was always there


 


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