#1385 - in a tight sky

 

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in a tight sky

for the field guide to Australian clouds

 

cloud sea

 

over the desert

rivers run out

 

and this is our heart

dry as the love we’re to leave

 

in a tight sky

not anywhere now but up

 

nor in time but between

I’m gone

 

foreign clouds crossing

heedless

 

imagine a bridge among the islands

 

everything’s there

city of lost socks

kingdoms gone

with their singing

their flags

 

all otherish noew 

 

and scrawl in

read the titles on a screen

 

‘chuckles ruefully’

‘dreamy new age music’

 

things vanish in

ponds of cloud

high harbours

 

what’s lost when you’ve left

made mist?

 

some clouds fizzle out

 

all will be spoken in Elsewhere

into the sea grey

vessel strung

 

the desert’s gone

and I am 

 

I know it may be a long long time

I know all of this will flower