III As It draw breath but would not sing
still for you’d stay. Clouds, hinged in crimson
leaned into the yawning ground. How hope
would fade, as you depart. A saddened turn.
Verity Spott. Poet. 'He'd make a big show of sticking the two torn halves in his wallet. When we buried him, Frank and I tossed the last two halves he gave us into his grave. Here ' 'Between the two torn halves of my soul are cities and climates' 'Place those two torn halves of the map together again and you are re-enacting the history of the Silurian to Devonian periods' 'The two torn halves promise but never deliver full restitution'
III As It draw breath but would not sing
still for you’d stay. Clouds, hinged in crimson
leaned into the yawning ground. How hope
would fade, as you depart. A saddened turn.
This morning, this grand impossible morning
avenues of light passing through the barriers
I wait for you. There is annihilation in this
speaker, though when it comes, who knows
poison, and poison begins somewhere, in
the unconscious mind, a dark door over
the left shoulder or just out of sight, before
you are through it you are through it;
the world closes down and the entire soul
is sabotaged, institutions formed up to pattern
recognition out of sight, out of the head
and shame and unyielding attacks
on the imaginative faculties are its lifeblood
feeding on the desiccated numbers, at large
mounting the insurgencies: Addiction and calm
this morning arrive here, learn its names,
depart without a kiss, pure blank severance
a light as light will form, forcing back the door.
Wide artillery corrupted hillside
she held in her body historic
press occupation buried
layers of prison, distant faction
as dawn would rise and the panoply
fall asking our feet to proceed
for their soulless close, warm
germinal rain by the shutter mural,
in a distant window, not so far now
we held one another’s faces,
shared a quieted kiss, close in the nerve
uncoupled as the blue blades became
the rest of the sky, and fixed,
to departed life, so ordering the clouds.
Refuse and flowers, haunted
I move on, through the world
searching for that which disappears
in the hand
lost to nothing, by remembered
honeyed leaves
in its echo, scented, satisfied…
We stood in the middle of a field
of corpses. It stretched as far
as the eye can see,
in every conceivable direction,
above and below.
They were new corpses.
We had not killed them, and
we stood there, in the field
was the world.
He kissed my mouth. I laughed
and stumbled a little. My weight
landed on a belly, lightly covered
in dewy grass, and a sound, a little cry
came from the mouth of the corpse.
We both remarked on this;
we had not known
there might be a corpse
and that gas, lost in the belly
acts on the chords to make a voice.
His fingers, warm, wrapping my fist
and in the field's dawn
chorus, elderflowers opened
their faces to the world.
How to sing
discerning a pinpoint
or set
along the way.
The anchor
was the rain. Elements
and focus
distance you along.
I knew that face
and called as the crowd
closed, the morning
light away.
II They decided well, to end. My heart my breath my wall. Spoils. Shit. Unbarbed. Thoughts, who merely stammer away. Awash with a principled morning. My tribute to a long grey shore. Far, far beyond reach. Whistle. I will raise a hundred shores. This is a ring, a dynasty. Lost time incidents. Get out. What is it that awakes the shore, it is who does not begin to sing. Stay! Stay! Late in pine that dreams colour knows beyond system repair shore project does not pile up, received info to fraud dips in radio pretends itself a feeling. Comes expands and gets shot and can’t breathe and that will simply never work. All beyond is binary and still inserted to deflating you, my own true corridor, beyond the fortieth floor on possible. A hand reaches from the shore to the sea that inscribes life beyond the use of caning. Then fear flares into a tongued yellow knot of clinging skies. Permanent trap. A thing bites in, resume, to the wreck of routine to track it and its own self down. As though too much closed end. Targeted life would live to be called alive again. Click think make grief suffer you. Make sky pray an index by a ration its brittle path outer out end everything ever about you gone away.