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Saturday, 8 April 2017

Trepidation (Without Gratification)

Quite the opposite to Emptiness Dancing
Brought on, in part, by today's destination
And last night's early disruptive dream
Neither of which I desire to expand upon
Except to say that relationships
And their dissolution, played significant parts

Not at all the synthesis
Of the sunlight, and the leaf, and the raindrop
As enveloped
On that quiet Sunday morning in the countryside
Nor as felt

On that slow drive, along narrow, puddled lanes
With hedgerows guarding the ploughed fields
With trees sprinkling, not interfering, with the view
Quite the opposite, to the moorlands
With their exposed outcrops of rock
Where the blue, serially activates the doubt within



Friday, 7 April 2017

They Carry My Pictures

Better in the morning
Sunlight
Fancy shoes; your hand upon
My navel

Briefly you open your eyes
Smile
At my silent thank you
And then

Right beside the birdsong
Under the bluest of skies
Where I gave you my
New found virginity

Told you more than ever I know
More than ever
The cooing bird
Or the gentle breeze

Listen;
Do you hear
They carry my pictures
My pictures

Pictures
Of
And by
The morning


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Thursday, 6 April 2017

The Private House

If you should drive
Past Cow Pasture Barns
You will see a sign for; well
Make your own mind on that

The sign says
Potatoes £4-00
Nothing more, nothing less, quite simply:
Potatoes £4-00

Before the barns
Before the private house
The private house
Which used to be a public house

You may see the old man
The old man in the big garden
I don't expect, unlike the potato sign
That he is always there

But he was there, today
In the big garden
The big garden
Before the corner

The corner with the private house
A private house
Which used to be a public house
A public house before the Cow Pasture Barns

The Cow Pasture Barns with a sign that says
Potatoes £4-00
No more, no less - ever so simple
Potatoes £4-00


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Wednesday, 5 April 2017

The Old House

The old house, with rectangular windows
Is empty
No one lives there now
No one has lived there for a very long time

The house is empty
The long time is empty
Death, the long time of death
The long, long time of death, is empty

There are no chintz curtains
Or modernist abstract paintings
All that you have you take with you
All that you have your friends give you

All that you have lives with you
Inside and outside
Your rectangular windows
Inside and outside your old houses

Rectangular windows
Inside and outside
Of your long time
Your long time, of death, and of dying


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Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Before You Have Anything But You

All you are
Is all you are
All you have
Is all you have
All you have
Is all you are
All you are
Is all you have

Without a stitch
From the cherry and walnut
Inlaid wardrobe
Without a smudge
From the cherry and walnut
Inlaid dresser
Without a brush, without a touch
Without a crush of musk perfume

All you are
Is all you have
Before you have anything
But you
Before you have anything
But you
All you gave
Is all you give
All you give
Is all you gave
All you give
For those who gave
All you gave
For those who give

Without some hitch
From the foul
Or fair weather umbrella
Without some fudge
From the fake
Namesake storyteller
Without some hush, silence so much
Without the lush of husks presumed

All you are
Is all you have
Before you have anything
But you
All you are
Is all you have
Before you have anything
But you
All you are is all you have, before you have anything but you




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