Sunday 30 April 2023

#1216 - the stone, another sky gift

 



1216

1.v.23

4.121

the stone, another sky gift

Gore Cove Track series

 

time crafted

slippery days after

 

here’s tall standing

 

come to the creek’s small roar

 

we run

 

a thicket of shadow

a bird’s nest

 

voices high

and the train

and gone

 

moss and leaf are travellers too

 

a far sudden autumn it is

 

stumps up

each stone a map of ancient tides

 

I lean

 

I myself the track

and fall on

like an object in orbit

not quite down

though we touch

this one horizon

 

the tree is ever reaching

the tune is in the tree






























esperanta serio #633 - tagiĝpoemo (aubade)




 


633

(nekalkulebla) tagiĝpoemo

 

unua estis ĝardeno

aspergita per polvo de stelo

 

sorĉon

 

vi rekonos la doloron kiel tago

ĝi estas lumigita ĝis rando, ankoraŭ kisita

 

iu trumpeto por dato, tempo

neniu koko iam rakontis ĝis nun

 

koncerne la unua

mi pensas, ke ĝi havas malfreŝaj ŝuoj odoron

kiel de alia aĝo

aŭ alia planedo

 

pluvo tiom kiom ĝi falis

 

ĝi daŭras ĝis ni dissolviĝas en ĝi

 

tiam la folioj tute ekbruliĝas

do vidu kiom for ni estas

 

 

 



 

 

(umpteenth) aubade

 

the firstness was a garden

sprinkled with dust of star

 

a spell

 

you'll recognize the ache as day

it's lit to edge, still kissed

 

some trumpet for a date, a time

no rooster ever told so far

 

as for the firstness

I think it has a stale shoes smell

as of another age

or planet

 

rain so far as it fell

 

it lasts till we dissolve in it

 

then the leaves come all alight

so see how far we are

 

 

 

 



Saturday 29 April 2023

#1215 - there are places I've only seen in the dream

 



1215

30.iv.23

4.120

there are places I’ve only seen in the dream

 

where I have never been

they could be from another life

 

life from which I’ve woken now

will sleep again when gone

 

there must be lives I’ve dreamt

go back there

with a pilgrim staff

with an open heart

 

this is the royal road

Sisyphus climb

 

like moss on a rock

where the rain waits

and which part to hide?

 

when I float

when I fly

there is the other world

it must always have been

 

I am the ant and see up so

am the worm on my way

extend amoeba arm

 

when I am waving in the wind

am swept

washed off

 

I could tell you once

not now

 

there is no floor

there are no walls

no gravity to go

 

that’s just the kind of box it is

 

must not remember here

 

the places only ever dreamt

where I have been before








get well poem for Andrew Burke

 



to the bright light

get well poem for Andrew Burke

 

by all means
hover

float

as you like

 

run with a revelation

be where to dreamt

and to the moment

 

fly

with a tom tom drive

 

rough up the diamond

get all the way around

 

‘that one always came close to the line’

they’ll say

 

vrmmm vrmm for the practiced fanfare

 

but there are things still next

 

one needn’t depart to prepare

 

have a heart

recon maybe

still

 

join this wire to this other

they will

and perhaps you’ll be able to watch

advise

 

come back from the bright

don’t let the screen go blank

 

keep the mouse clicking

curse the cursor

unconsider the siren call

 

stay with us

 

come back to your friends

we all

wait on your next word

 

come back to love

it might not be much

 

it’s the best we can do

on this world

 

one must always be congratulated

on having come this far


esperanta serio #632 - bonŝanca


 

632
bonŝanca

 

stelo falis

flanken

ĉi tiu pasinta nokto

kiam ni estis

lasta afero

preskaŭ malsupren

 

mi atentis al

la citronarbo

kiel de verando

 

unu rano parolis

el la tanko

por profetado

memorigante min

de lastatempa pluvo

 

kvazaŭ el la ĉielo

la tutan ĉi vojon

tiaj deziroj venis

antaŭdirita








 

lucky 
 
a star fell
sideways
this night past
when we were
last thing
nearly down

I was attending

the lemon tree
as from veranda
one frog spoke
out of the tank

for prophecy

reminding me

of recent rain

 

as if from heaven

all this way

such wishes came

foretold

Friday 28 April 2023

#1214 - frontality

 



1214

29.iv.23

4.119

frontality

ekphrastic for Sidney Nolan’s (1962) ‘Escaped Convict’

 

‘when I am far away and all my bones is moulded away

… I value death nothing … I have not closed an eye since’

 

 

he is like a lost tiger

already parts missing

 

he is the blur of a man

betrayed

 

how many fingers am I holding up?

 

this is a face for another world

 

he is dressed for mud

 

love lost

but not to death

 

set circumstances

a blur to be off

 

wears stripes

for a way out of the world

 

he is becoming the place

he could be anyone


Thursday 27 April 2023

#1213 - dancing in my head

 




1213

28.iv.23

4.118

dancing in my head

 

in among the words I’ve spent

and in the shed in my head

 

over so many such graves

richly adorned

 

to the nines!

a limb fling outlive

 

and cast a blow for too

throw world this little line

 

by self and slow I dance

but you knew that already

 

up storms!

do your stuff!

 

now shine

who’ll lead

 

and who’s to follow?

fly comes in to die

 

I dance

and do these wings as well

 

much rust

more dust

 

through cobweb

take a chance

 

and tip

now multiply

 

oft over

up steady

 

I do it with sunshine

often despite

 

take these certain steps

familiar

 

sometimes

wherever and ever again

 

wherever else I am 




esperanta serio #631 - ĉi tie mi neniam kreskis




631

ĉi tie mi neniam kreskis

(noto por miaj arkeologoj)

 

forklako de vojo

kaj tie estas la estonta nebulo

 

bovo blekis

mi subiris la radaro

 

jen ĉi tiuj kelkaj akordoj por miro

sukcesante kiam ni venas al nia tempo

 

ĝi estis aĉetita tiucele

mi intencis ruinigi ilian komercan modelon

mi estis la kaŝita trezoro!

 

ĉi tie devas esti kie la penco falis

mi tiris la lanon super miajn proprajn okulojn

perdiĝis en la piano

mi fariĝis min mem evento

 

etendiĝis por konveni

kovris ĉiun surfacon

kaj eĉ kie mi ne povis ludi

 

klerulo pri mia grata skribotablo

astronaŭto de noktoj

  (knaboj ĉiam povus)

 

kaj ofte en kopifiguro por bruligi

mi faris mian propran anatemon

ĝuste kie mi surteriĝis

 

kiom altaj kaj veraj estas ĉiuj rakontoj

miksita flaŭro en la subaj fendoj

 

bonŝanca estis

jes mi venis malsupren en la lasta duŝo

kaj skuu kruron por komenci

 

kaj la nokto estis ĉiam juna

 

laboris ĝis la osto

tamen mi tenis mian ĉemizon

 

grandiozeco en la mano, flugiloj

 

jen mi eksciis

mia valabia naturo

mi kantis kune kun la saltanta pilko

 

kie venas malĝojo

freŝa elkovita

 

mi tenas ĉi tie la cikutan bekon

nur okaze de puĉoj

 

jes vi povas diri, ke ĝi estas duonplena

 

ĉi tiu estas la loko!

fosu tie ĉi !

 

 




 

 

 

this is where I never grew up

(a note for my archaeologists)

a rattle past of road

and there's the future mist

 

cow lowed

I went under the radar

 

here these few chords for amazement

succeeding as we come to our time

 

it was purchased for the purpose

I meant to wreck their business model

I was being the hidden treasure!

 

this has to be where the penny dropped

I pulled the wool over my very own eyes

got lost in the piano

made myself event

 

I stretched to fit

covered every surface

and even where I couldn't play

 

a scholar of my scratchy desk

an astronaut of nights

 (boys always could)

 

and oft in effigy to burn

I made my own anathema

just where I landed

I landed

 

how tall and true all stories are

mixed flora in the cracks below

 

a lucky thing it was

yes I come down in the last shower

and shake a leg to start

 

and the night was always young

 

worked down to the bone

still I kept my shirt on

 

grandeur in the handspan, wings

 

this was where I found out

my wallaby nature

I sang along with the bouncing ball

 

where come to grief

fresh hatched

 

I keep the hemlock beaker here

just in case of coups

 

yes you can say it's half full

 

this is the place!

dig here!

 


Wednesday 26 April 2023

#1212 - I am a continent adrift

 


1212

27.iv.23

4.117

I, the undiscovered country

 

uncharted

unknown quantity

 

who’ll know what must presage

I regularly invade

 

and that’s just warming up

caution to the winds let flail

 

I turn the leaves, call orb

I set foot ashore, raise flag

 

lamb it with the lion

 

I strive to lose legibility

that way match the splash

 

I am continent adrift

good as cloud go

 

in pink on beyond

 

the me me me

 

I imagine a shape

find it beautiful

let off no smell at all

 

nor cast a shadow one could see

 

no one can know just how I wish

or whom I’ll next devour

 

I am the miracle whizz

gone further than heretofore

 

move tragically

must take the piss

 

that’s just to get started

 

it’s every creature like this

each separate single cell

 

a kingdom if it can

 

I know it must be this way for you

and I know that you know what I mean




esperanta serio #630 - foje frapo kaj neniu estas tie


 


630

foje frapo kaj neniu estas tie

 

mi nomas tion religio

mi lasis tion okazi

kvankam mi ne povus intenci ĉion

ĉi tio estas kie la abeloj alportas sunbrilon

 

vojetoj forkiĝas

estas ĉiu paŝo ĝuste kie ni estas

 

kiel formika procesio

halti, flari

fari agrablan interŝanĝon

 

mi estis mordita nur se ili havis tempon por kapti min

 

ili konstruas ĉi tiun mondon, kiun vi konas

ili ĝoje iras plu

 

mi ŝatas sunbrilon

vento apude

nek falante en fidon

 

estas nur tio ke mi estas

demando sonanta en la aero

 

 





 



 

sometimes a knock and nobody’s there

 

I call that religion

I have let this happen

though I couldn’t have meant it all

it’s where the bees bring sunshine

 

paths fork

it’s every step just where we are

 

as ant processional

to stop, sniff

make pleasant exchange

 

I was only bitten if they had time to catch

 

they build this world you know

they go gladly on 

I like a sun shone

breeze beside

nor falling into faith

 

just that I am

a question ringing in the air

 

 


Tuesday 25 April 2023

#1211 - woke

 



1211

26.iv.23

4.116

woke

on alien day

 

woke up forgetting

miracle meant for

 

off on adventure

a hoot and fling and far

 

on alien day

to otherworld it

shine this morning

just where we are

 

wake to an accidental map

worry the old bones out

 

burnish and cloudburst

socks to hang

 

the day from scratch

 

I must appreciate myself

(dirty job but)

 

meanwhile continue to flee

heading for any border or coast

eye out for foretelling

 

keep trying to take off this hat

pass it on

but more and more rabbits come out

 

night was cardboard

where it cut out

 

woke up dreaming breathless

and roll the world again

 

a fragment breaks off here in day glitz

 

don’t know what I’m letting go of

only that it’s gone