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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Light Moves

One stroke of colour

& the race to emotional overload begins

As if only one woman ever wore blue

At least that blue of extremism in contemplation

Smiles offered

Would you expect still to wait

As if the time wasted was all that remained

Of that fabric of life we once shared together

The mock chandelier is fitted

To the new house entrance ceiling

As if otherwise all else would be the emptiness

Of a place we had once dreamed of

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See it, Feel it

Cold white light, silhouettes

The relics of religion

Warm sun

Melts the valley floor's

Frosted grasses

As if somehow

You know the ways of love

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