May 2010
30 posts
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i lie in these words
like a child caught stealing
like a cat in a sunbeam
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honey never tasted sweeter
than this night’s music
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this old camera
my grandfather’s
is a blind eye
a shell
filmless
it does not expose
what he missed
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red wine furs the tongue
my words catch as burrs
thick with ruby vowels
and muddy meanings
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i recall things as film
jump-cuts and mostly fades
but acting in a single take
i edit memories while rolling
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more rain
and we live in the half-light
of a never breaking dawn
city distances vanishing
to grey
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our self-portrait from mars
sunlight reflected,
detected, encoded,
stretched into radio
and flung back
at the earth
now a postcard to ourselves
saying wish you were here
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in this humidity
we move without bones
jelly-soft and slow
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give yourself away
you are birdsong
singing
this is me
this is me
this is me me me
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anyone can burn a city
gasoline and spark
some bullets for a lark
and up she goes,
see
that’s your flame
the one you carry
your cause
your defeat
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if i said
no more
would you hear
no,
more.
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drunk early,
children’s voices soften
the street is cleaner
and i find Sunday
sun set
and float home
smiling
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tiny scraps of night
the bats dip and dive
above a canal
thick with bugs
and sluggish koi
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sight sees imperfectly
only touch its base gravity draws skin to surface makes real the physical and
in union with vision gives weight to light
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impossible this cavernous time a history in limestone yawning older than thought
how to imagine what a stalactite might become, when
water builds cathedrals one molecule after another
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sudden laughter, its cold-water shock
cracks open the morning train
as two friends meet by chance
the commuters around them
blinking now like startled rabbits
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too early and still dark i wake to the patter of rain slide the window closed while some part of me slips through to walk the quiet streets
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inside me something slithers
inside me something flutters
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imagine a light like dust
suspended airborne
erasing all shadow
all colours pastel, and
luminous layers building
on bookshelves, light
settling in tangles of cord
behind the television,
swept into corners and
gathering in bright bunnies
beneath the bed.
squinting and sleepless
we take up brooms
to sweep a little contrast
into the too-bright world
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nothing is like the sound
of a nighttime rain forest
each thing clamouring
from canopy to earth
for life, its own
or another’s
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my sword was a stick
and playing alone in the forest
each beleaguered tree
held its branches against me
foes gregarious in battle
gracious in defeat, and
in climbing became allies
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around the fire of our televisions
we watched it unfold
there were bullets and fires
and waters rose while
buildings came down
there were dictators
overthrown and fortunes lost
while explosions ripped
flesh in shuttles and hotels
a child starved somewhere
flies humming in her ears
as the tanks rolled
into streets deserted
and littered
and candlelight vigils
remembered the...
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feel that.
our earth
shivering us
like flies
on its flank
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what shape is a day?
is it a calendar square
full of empty corners
boxed between more,
or the circular spin
of the planet’s axis
spiralling in space,
or the tapering body
of a snake
bulging with his meal
and sliding away
into the forest
April 2010
30 posts
