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Mitternacht

 

In silence
eyes peer from
tears in pumpkin skin,
mulched November
sweets left in a storing
room.
The love is gone,
two poets
eaten of their romance,
blueberry lips from
sore and rough kisses.
He left with a telegram
from the BBC
while She stirred up
in sour light,
rhubarbs ploughed by
her father’s moon.

 

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We Delight in the Beauty of the Butterfly

but rarely admit
what it has gone through -
the long nights
spent wrapped up
in some rusted bag of past,
days before when
walked on stomach,
mornings fresh fat
on the rug,
wriggling under
some menaced robin head.
We delight in its bijou,
its glass head of colour,
how the little bob to
the flower
gives us safety.
On your shoulder,
it is a good rest,
sweet and sleepy velvet,
and...

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To a Dying Star

When the day comes,

full of red nimbus skies

and black pronounced

against the bodies of - they will say it was

not outside of any plan.

 

Like, too, my foolish way

of thinking it is here, holding hands;

some real and loving thing,

they will say that everything

united is - universe after universe.

 

I could have most if it:

the blue and white eye delights,

...

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Print

 

In the groove of my thumb
I think I will find you - some
creature that can survive the dark.

You have whale eyes -
sad pebble holes for my dark
to allow each tear -

you the strongest,
the most sure, though unknowing.
To find you, in the dark
yet -

yes I think you will be in the 
groove of my thumb
and gently most belonging you are,

I will finger paint
until you - hopeful
...

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Eyas

 

Amongst the bitten twigs and fur caught,
low shrubs where each of us
is half in the tree and half in the rock,
a skull the thumb size of climbing sleeps.

If you do not come back
I will untie the ribbons
from my hair and open the hollow
parts of my head to the wind.

You said I would do that
enough myself  -  my teeth cut,
my goose feather torn  -
no excuse for you 

baying in ...

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Pink Tree

 
How far? How far do you grow
your cute thoughts into their air,
blot cottons of arms, sugar sweet
in the shimmy?
 
The sky is a solemn blue,
the plain is flat and empty,
save for you, Pink Tree, you
and your hello.
 
Hello, hello, hello -
the rain dollops. Big fat hellos,
laughing too. Smacked right down
on to your pink palms.
 
You are the saddest of all trees.
No...

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Burns


Perhaps she reminded me of me;
flesh melted, her forever childish smile –
how the wax folds upturned her mouth
and the yarrow splits around her eyes,
those picked at  -the  stems of veins
crawling around her ears.
 
I need to get better,
close her sorrow around me
like that gentle fur of the toy kitten she holds -
I need to hold her and know what she knows. 
 
N...

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Death

 
Into that strange sky where
the past cries eternally, what drop
of tear would stay here on the earth?
They say the hummingbird dies
each night, dressed in alabaster
and the woman too cupping him
in her hands, soft woes for centuries
after – the muse’s muse who folds
her robes into a poem like a flower
losing itself to winter and  the
pain of all colours that chap...

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Raven

 
Above, the tiles slip
heat from a working noon -
invisible rising
of the giddy eye
to where he stands, oil dripping
in curious colours
more colour when touched
than seen,
above legend
and cosmos
in every morsel, scrap, empty logo
tossed from passing cars
and the navy scurry
of office legs,
to pinned folk lore
drawn garish, cartoonish
where yolk...

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Blueberries

 

In mad moments I wonder
if they crave the sharp injection of teeth -
 
crowded and desperate,
revealing  blue blood;
 
their trails of squid ink
smeared  on the back of my hand.
 
 
 
 

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Muses

 
Take the dustbins, the quietness of  little
city growths – why do they not do?
 
Not count? People get lost, but places too –
and somewhere a car-park is wandering
in limerance without a painter’s touch.
 
 
See now how the bus stop crouches in the cold,
it’s head frightened, loosening up branches behind -
 
you do not love it,
you choose others
and its...

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