Ether and deference

Silver sky in my morning

Ball of fire through the clouds

You cast long shadows on my paper

The pencils chrome reflects into a circle

Of varying circumference and depth of field

The paper is not yet penetrated by your light

Or my words; your cloud covered stillness

Is, as someone said yesterday, of heroin

A sheet, a bed cover, a safety or a comfort

Is that so for you, as now you disappear

Drawn down, hidden by our looking

Doubtful as to your persona

Thought lost in your own possession

Of the place we cannot reach or touch

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A small library

Books on the bookshelves

Left to right

Tallest to smallest

Poetry, self help, reference

Lost, found

Pathways to escape

And the Beatles Anthology

The biggest book

By quite a way

Krishna's Dialogue On

The Soul is minute

In comparison

Oh and Jonathon Livingston Seagull

Crashing into cliffs

Next to Wendy Cope

So

Well then tomorrow

We will go

And buy that DIY

Bookshelf

Left to right

Youngest to oldest

Cold War

Next to Cold Comfort Farm

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Perception

You know, here, in isolated country, under canvas

In the still of night there is no one to be afraid of

No fear outside of our own imagination

Only ghosts of a suicidal farmer and his in bred son

Not so in the city of a thousand and one creations

With psychologists, philosophers

Non-denominational priests

And the next day latter day nun

I feel safe with people around

In any case

What would the thief take from me

My clothes, my hand baggage, my loose change

How succinct

And so obvious

Life could steal my possessions

But not me, nor my dreams

Or my thoughts of the open road

The sparrows in the hedgerow

The robins in the garden, and the hip-hop busker

Going up the coming down escalator as if unseen

Told of old people unable to talk to young people

Policeman, who banned sales of eggs to teenagers

Health and safety; fearful that they will create havoc

Around the time of Halloween

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By oneself

The stream is overgrown

The water is heard but unseen

No children's voices or splashes

Or swine's in sight

No sunlight or dampness or snow

Or the late night rites

Under the one and only

Stood up straight, street light

Was their a moment

An hour, or a day

When the last pass forever

Was revisited

Was their a final shake

Of the nine o'clock hand-bell

The last school delivery

Of lukewarm milk

The meaning is often thrown

By a smile or a laugh

At the airborne joke filled

Conversation from a soft armchair

A glass of chilled chardonnay

Stereophonic music of the spheres

And behind that the coming of the night

The return of swine's in sight

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Triangle

Eighteen untold stories

Of bedrooms, gardens

And torn down houses

Nine pairs of partners

Passing over secrets

As if so to live again

Your fondest moment

My closely

Recollected memory

And the young girl

In Australia, afraid

Of the outdoor khazi

Darkness, light; stairways

And rose red curtains

Spoken unwoken

With a gleam of the eye

Pass it on

Please, won't you

Why don't you

Softly, slowly

Tell me my story

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