#800 - doors and shadows

 

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doors and shadows

 

adorn the tree

with turnings

lain flat ladders

 

leaf twists on its way

 

orb over wend

here’s spider hung

spins gathering

 

meadow in the gloaming

a candle and a star

 

follow this back forth

foot flows

tangle of canals we come

 

a window in the hedge

a harbour so the sea

 

toll after toll

to the cloverleaf freeway

 

chink or flaw

one slipped through a crack

 

follow this forth back writing

a gull’s brief cuneiform

 

some sails

tango through the birthday song

 

behind this one

some truth

free to shine

 

war in the rattling shut

the chicken and the egg

 

and every gate an incantation

the many forms to fill

 

nothing to open here for fresh air

 

over the horns

and my dilemma

 

knock three times for a spell

 

stuck in time here

 

go all fours sniffing

tell yourself

‘we will find a way’