Day Five
Ten years of snow,
Hypno-dream-pop pixels, down,
Up to ankles, over eyes,
Got so deep,
Got so high, chronic,
Chromatic overkill,
Slowly snow blind,
Snow-bound,
Fuzzed and frosty,
White-noise-sound, it is
So deathly.
Still.
Here.
True or false - it's poetry?
Day Five
Ten years of snow,
Hypno-dream-pop pixels, down,
Up to ankles, over eyes,
Got so deep,
Got so high, chronic,
Chromatic overkill,
Slowly snow blind,
Snow-bound,
Fuzzed and frosty,
White-noise-sound, it is
So deathly.
Still.
Here.
Day Four
Not so much art as it is
a frenzied blow, struck, it is
paper, cut. Of course, it's
a pretty laceration.
No calligraphy
carves a line like a scalpel.
The way it splits the skin, it's
Delicious. It is final.
There is a boy, looking
at a girl; she is looking
lonely, through a window.
Her face is turned away.
A samurai;
Examining the viscera,
Dispassionate, faced
with anything arterial.
How this severed artistry
is kept, concealed and freshly scarred,
In a forgotten place,
Unforgotten.
Day Three
You can (add9)to an A minorand it peals, likea big, simple agony.I always knew that chordI think, before I heldthe axe in my hands.Before thingsbade me lie down in its bed.You can't (add9)to a dovetail jointnor palm-mutea database, oh,I wish I knew howto be open-voicedin appraisal.I could have been middle-management by now.
I like a poem because it's not like a painting.Because I'll confidently cradle something
stainless; hold the exceptional eye of it,which is sarsen grey. It's accurate masonry.A poem is trapezoidal.It will sit on the ground, you can walkaround, point prosodicright at the solidity of the stanza.The straight line in a meter, go -run your thumb assuredlyall along the perfect surface;Any line with a defectlies forgotten in the quarry.That's why I like a poem. At leastin theory, shaped pure andfine-finished as a citadel.But I wonder if Machu Picchu thinks- or even knows - about the faultsin her foundation. She's sitting up thereon the nerve of a natural defect,and she don't give a damn.So I did some painting, to be like the Inca.To be painted, myself, whimsical-like.And the acrylics were so alien, theywere such a clamour of colour, theywere howling! All striving -Idiots! - mucking and muddlingand setting themselves too previous.I almost kicked over the easel.But, like the Inca, I learneda bit about building. About drainage.I began to see the sky bloom purple,fruit ripening in stone,an uncertainty of green in the grass.I built something new, and I found
I did not so much mind the cracks.
Okay, it's a little skew whiff.My brush, he forgets the meter;
only knows a ruffled rhythm
of colour, that might?
breathe life to a sarsen stone.
Even, perhaps, in purple tones,refute the sky and its blueness.So step back, squint your eyes;It looks just like a poem.
People call me
The Underestimated Lettuce
Not out loud but
I see it in the way
They discard me from their burger at the barbecue
With the tiniest throbs and wobbles,
the Moon is slipping from our grasp.
Incandescent with rage but
carefully swept clean.
With a very precise curve,
she might make herself invisible
or a puff of distant gossamer,
perfectly arrayed for the creation of stars.
She has suddenly found out about the wind,
setting hurricanes to spin off like tops.
In some sense, gravity does not exist.
It makes the Moon no less interesting,
or odd, just more explicable.
The work of science is at an end,
like confessing a murder.
How stupid of me not to have thought of it -
the single best idea that anyone ever had;
to merely predict future events exactly.
She won't reach the Oort cloud for another ten thousand years.
Assembled from notes in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.
It had been a hot day
And Lizzy was glad she'd worn linen.
Having put in a jolly good shift, soon,
the sun would be heading for bed
and the blackbirds,
with the conclusion of their encores,
sang Goodnight, God bless.
Then, a peculiar quietude
slunk into the evening.
As though the venerable ash
had taken up, lightly, a knife and
crystal flute, and tinkle-tapped the day.
There was not a soul at the bus stop.
The air hung, as if trampolining.
Into this stillness, there sauntered
a fox. Brazen as the moon is full and
russet, with a deadpan panache.
From the clasp of her jaw was slung
an extraordinarily plump hen.
The fox noted Lizzy by the bus stop.
And seeing there were no buses
nor cars, nor dogs, nor children,
and seeing that the dusk was ripe for walking,
she stepped oh-so softly into twilight,
taking home her remarkably fat chicken.
Day Five Ten years of snow, Hypno-dream-pop pixels, down, Up to ankles, over eyes, Got so deep, Got so high, chronic, Chromatic overkill, ...