20 July 2009


1003
Being in it with wind on face
Felt like mortality--
Wind slipped by fellow sea;
Brief impediment I stood,
Sand shod,
In garment snapped pennants of boundary,

Encroached upon desolation--
And a salt eye
In turn encroached
By this border's harbinger of an echo
Of a state forgot.

17 July 2009


1000
A walk into morning
Seems names for motion and slant time
On skin and eye and thought,
Yet too, itself unwitnessed--
Unwitnessed to itself.
Interloped and partnered
You shadow of a grassy blade,
Now blade and shadow incorporate,
Impertinent to parsing thought.

13 July 2009


996
From an asterism in the heart
Crossed by compass
As coined patterns,
Or tossed stars by hazard lined,
Is goddess or hero by determination made
And explication of nothing crafted;
If nature make a circle round
Sensation's children's liberty's unsound.

04 July 2009




986
Tired of London
And the simulacrum of days
Once breathed.
Small things a largness makes
Consonant with the sum--
In one touch all love;
In a multitude the prisoned self.

26 June 2009


979
Dark this pearl as night rain
In perception about a grain
Of seeming sound grown water drop
Round, a phantom of what is--
Yet wholly world misthought:
Pre-judgement's paste was bought.

22 June 2009


976
This primal calm
Was a void of potence
Unmattered,
As longing ere absence--
Whilst in embryo inevitability
That stillness of motion, time,
As one ruffle
Beguiled what it was by silence.

14 June 2009


968
The constellated tones
Made organ notes by eyes
--
So thought become
A school roofed by night,
And stars lectures
With mouths of light:
In naught but invention
Lies unfettered will--
A spurious perfection
All nature shuns--
Morality's clockwork's
But the ticking orbits of suns.

07 June 2009


962
The heart of the father lies always in darkness--
Unsinewed at need,
Unneeded at strength;
In time's sightless border pent.

03 June 2009


957
Fruit of a feast of idleness--
Her escutcheon amidst the pale,
To pale appetite this vison fed--
Needless is more in velleity's bed.
No outward flourish
But still-limbed beguilement
In private shadow reposed,
And affection touchless disclosed.