dance

lazy femoral thump

taut muscular squirm

warm silken thigh

joins all sense to

one point

...

morning prayer II

one hundred

white and yellow

cockatoo prayer flags

flap limply in

a winter tree

...

morning prayer

hundred limp

white and yellow

cockatoo prayer flags

hang limp on

leafless tree against

crystalline sky

grasped still

by morning's frozen

fingers

...

sys admin

yellow fat-stained

empty eyes

fail to register

swollen putrescent tongue

threatens to suffocate

shallow limping breaths

go-on

suck down another

bagel

...

green spangled

cake morning for Mr Bloom

sugary pink

fairy floss sky

crunchy white

frosting

poo-poo

profiteroles

frozen plumpudding

icecream gumboots

...

crystals

sparkling crystalline fingers

dance carefully

frigid steel gate

...

dogbark

dogbark peels

baneful tongues of fog

sodden trees

black

...

fogdog

baneful fogdog

echos black wet

bark peeling

sodden trunk of night

...

soft

scared heart and

soft muscle

draw a line

through

half-grown

stunted dreams

behind me

snow

water

and road

hurl accusation

at half-arsed

ventures

...

tears

heavy

leaden tears

lifted into

rotting bags

to cover

their shame

taken away

by a wild

grey haired

woman

in the boot

of her

dying falcon

...

gently sparkling

under night's blackness

dark things come

to steal all my prettiness

wrapped round

the two of you

i gently sparkle on

...

dry morning

desiccated

pea brain

pinched - furry

sandscrapered

eyeballs

dry - crusted

too tired

to drink

...

blood drum

your drumming

blood speaks

to me

new learning

stirs memories

of your future

earth's sadness

stains my cheek

with joy

...