#1790 - here we are

1790

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24.xi.24

here we are

a concert piece for Elisha Redmond’s ‘silver shrike’

 

these wings in that rain

 

spread like hands across

stream and up

 

over us leaf

 

a beam slant

sun by the falls

 

above each note, this next

 

and, as to stone, a hammer of time

after, for shade resounding

 

these wings in this

 

whim, gully slip

the eyes abroad

 

stairs up through air

traipse down too

 

whiff of it

trailing the day

and make

 

heart more than meant

 

mist clearing

then the far

 

the wings

to a stillness fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#1789 - instinct

 

1789

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23.xi.24

instinct

for wise surprise

 

back there becoming

deep in a secret dark

it’s brittle

 

take the words as they come

where we come apart

 

take cloud from the head

 

when with love we’ll call it

 

bird full of tree chatter

 

there’s a ladder just struck

shining where we are

 

alert to the turns of the world   

 

by rag by brush by scratch stick

 

you could break a heart on this

 

paint over the day to be here

#1787 - when I was animal alive

 

1787

5.325

21.xi.24

when I was animal alive

 

much bitten

shade cast

 

hot, cold, grown over

 

all you others too

 

here was our sudden time of year

 

we were slow to the moment

 

laughing it past

yet to arrive

 

others told up light

 

fine webs

a fuss of petal fallen

 

so many ways of a thing awry

 

feet on the ground

nose led

 

had run of the place

tail to chase 

 

where was the music from then?

 

none of this

who we ought to be

 

had the eye

blood telling round

you could hear it then

 

was always glory coming

 

some would say the day 

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#1787 - another world

1787

5.325

21.xi.24

another world

 

as we have dreamt

 

a matter of fact foretold

 

where life is larger

 

land with no bones

 

time’s race against

 

just the idea

 

bung flicker on the wall

 

wrong told out

 

how least things overawe

 

a swim through soundless space

 

deep in the creature times lies

as in any horizon

 

and sometimes the right word

was there all along

 

must be we dreamt together

 

we must have dreamt it all

#1786 - no questions asked

 

1786

5.324

20.xi.24

no questions asked

 

times think things gone

night’s pockets empty

where’s my card, my key?

 

it’s naked out of hours where

same with the skin

felt here, just there

 

absent, lost as limb

a fine mist peering

inward

 

shape it

see where we were

imagined

 

day will come

as twig rise

when all the edge is fallen

 

tell self away

not how we’ve come

or will or why

 

become

a trick

of light

 

#1785 - time got faster

 

1785

5.323

19.xi.24

time got faster

in hushed tones

 

it’s to polish

we slowed down

 

always further further

to sleep

 

have you noticed?

time got faster

 

here’s the wheel

while I invent it

 

one day we’ll be

a first day gone

 

a little fire

wings deciduous

 

I’m just climbing now

time forgot us

 

tricked past too

sleep the bones

 

wake the flesh

of the clock

 

death

is a best prediction

 

call that my shine

to see