Extravaganza

The bedroom blind moves to and fro

Sucked and blown

By the breeze at the open window

The sunlight shines strong and bright

Through the flickered leaves

Of fresh spring trees by young hedgerow

Tea is brewed, hot cross buns toasted

No one else about

As if a time to create a few words seeming

If it is love you want, love you shall have

My love lies sleeping

Who knows what dreams are in her dreaming

If it is doubt that you would rather read

The flowers shadows

Appear to be somewhat hidden within

Even though the hour is fair-some and early

A little music is offered

Voyageur songs from Fall Creek - Wisconsin

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Kernel

So little to remember

Only with endless words

Could I hope to do you justice

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Stem Sperm

Would you laugh with me 

Would your laugh be against me

Could you laugh

As the midnight red light turns me to a tremble

As the spirits of the night in the shadows reassemble

Should I care

That the words are no more

Than a broken lovers token

In the glare of the bare night

Poetry is written, unspoken

The fare that I paid

Is returned to the sender

Left there unopened

The ridge of peace

Is only for the riders

Who go by, so still

So quietly awoken

Would your body settle with me

Would your body wrestle against me

Could your body thrash

As the indignant right rails me to ruefully disassemble

As the spirit of flight calculates & separately does tremble

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Silver

Inevitable, is it
That your name should be on my lips
As, with my breath
I blow the mist away
From the mirror of this Monday morning

The Supernaturals
Sing to me to smile
& smile with amusement I do
As if my immaturity
Thank God could never leave me

This silver birch is related
However distant
To the one we clasped, so fleetingly
In the virgin snow
At the edge of the Russian forest

Those trees are of the same strain
As the ones our one son
Photographed on the plaza
At the entrance to the art gallery
In England's burgeoning principality

Trees and mirrors and virgin snow
That I should think of you now
In front of the misty mirror
On an ordinary otherwise Monday morning


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Safe Distance (Words from a Jacuzzi)

It couldn't happen

We wouldn't meet by chance

We've long since waved happenstance away

I went to France

You learnt to dance

The lock-gates counterbalanced as we swayed

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