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Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Uncovered

Noisy mind

Fifty years of past behind you


They say that

Cats are more, or less

Disaffected by who they've known

Or where to, it is, that they have been


Embrace the sunlight; off stage

The newspaper is in further shadow


No psychological murmurs

No tumours or tremors

No rumours, at the turn of the page


The trunk sets off the branch

Out in search of sunshine

Out in search of photosynthesis


There are so many changes of direction

Many dried twigs without fruit

The young apples have fallen early


The party not yet fairly begun

Though the breeze has brought

Her own invitation


She

And you, dressed, girly and gaily

With endless serenity



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Monday, 4 December 2023

Still; love

I will wake you, in a while

So that later

We shall sleep safely together


That moment, it is upon me

Time to gather

And think about forever



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Sunday, 3 December 2023

Always and unexpected

Something

About instantaneous

Non-delayed gratification


About surprise

Wait; just for the right moment


Yesterday

The performance

The after performance party


Sunsets

Chilean Merlot

A guitar and a songbook


To wake

In love with love

We make love


About your present

Wait; just for the right moment



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Saturday, 2 December 2023

Soundwaves, nightfall

That pigeon, how long will it coo

Is that at all spelt correctly

How say would you hear it


At nightfall

At the time to settle

At the time to roost


Over there


The poppy stalks

Curled, bristled

Pods now where the flowers used to be


Thistles, softer hair on my lower arm

They share the sunlight

Care for the unseen shadow of immediacy




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Friday, 1 December 2023

Hangover

This is another nightfall

You asleep on the sofa

Wind blows through the slung open door


Bukowski, Kerouac, Waits

Why go in search of the low life

When presence pains no forgiveness


I tiptoe

It was such a long long journey

Beyond the duty of sleep


Motel bedrooms, Madison county

Where again the night after tomorrow

In pasts their feigns deliverance


Long shadows settle

Of old coal-fired chimneys

All covered by blue sky


Dog tracks, bars with malt whisky

Good time guys of the night

Of the day, a lighter sleeper



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