

A Tale Told in Snaps of AirUnfurl! A rush, the gushing touch of earth, The starburst of your dawn, trumpets the start, Of rib-ring-written limber lines of birth And scores of score and notes your mornings for Into dual domes, a pool where soon your heart Will beat with all the plunging, blushing heat Of slump and leap, sleet And snow, world of woodland and willow, And you unfurl from unfurled Clay-coloured robin curled, signifier of song thrush, Thistles learn their bagpipe violence and clouds billow.A Tale Told in Snaps of Air
Get cracking! Trip-trap back and back Into the sightless gap-toothed alps, red rock &


breathe out, breathe inStretched over the bark of the tree like a patient Helpless abortifacient of the old oaks Dolled in wax, latex elephant, expentent, latent Lover of the old leaves, as the surgeon Wide-lipped and glass-eyed as a dying sturgeon Purloining the end of her achilles heel With a million pinprick strokes Filling her up to feel The end of the line Reeling her in, luminous keelhauling, a squeal Of rubbery hot-air-balloon On leguminous steel. In the clutch of the sea fan and the sweet flag Let her screams drift you to dreamland In a marzipan swoon.breathe out, breathe in


sunset lastsSince your arrival earthward, My mild comet, I have travelledsunset lasts
All over the exactitude of the night sky Each clean-cut candle-light gleaming
All down the walls of sinister houses Between cold brick and black clay
And where, returning from a day Of toil and trouble, I paused
There, beside a cool rivulet Like a slim wavering cord
Until the light faded drearily Into a dry dark and I sighing
Wandered wearily homewards under A slick veneer of night
All over the exactitude of the oceans Where gelatinous fish gibb


understandingDo you understand the seaweed-shore The Neptunes pearl that rushes its way Along the salty sand forevermoreunderstanding
And the screaming salmon saluting Through the seas odyssey of war As he leaps from the dolphins play?
Do you understand the soft downy seeds Of the camomile and the wild weed That springs beyond old summers door And the acorn that grows forevermore?
Come with me, old timeless whale-water Along the milky green starlight That foams and forms underneath.
Come with me, pale comets daughter, Come and s
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Give me a dollar or i will bite your face!
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