PEOPLES(For Lyn)

She gathers
the world

into her
consciousness

holds its facts
like a beautiful blue

bunch
of wild flowers

clutched
tightly in her tiny fist.

All is alive
to her

whether it be sky
cloud or river...whatever.

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Feeling Like A Salvador Dali Watch

Feeling Like A Salvador Dali Watch

I lie
in this park

scattered with daises
& cigarette butts.

The sun orders us
to take off all our clothes

and we
mere humans

obey it.

The sun
pins us to the ground

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Going Tasaday

The Tasadays
(remants of a Stone Age culture)

recently discovered in the Philippines

have no words
for war, hate or weapons

but favour
the communicative power

of skin

indulging in constant
warm enfolding embraces

loving touches.

So, this Tuesday
let's be Tasadays

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One Second Behind(for Junie)

Memory takes
the chair

places it perfectly
in mid-air

yet erases the stair
that brings me there

forgets to sketch in
the rest of the house

the storm is placed
just outside the window

(just as it was)

livid with lightning
the voice of the thunder

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Durer's Hare

Vivid
as Durer's hare

as if my eyes had drawn
each & every hair

knew personally
each strand

its coat moving softly
in the breeze

moving with the rhythm
of its breathing

a real live hare
an inch and an eternity away

hanging out with us

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Broken Fragments Of Water

Cool earthenware pot
holding water as if it were

love that slopped & lapped
over its top

full to the brim

wearing with pride
the touch of your fingerprints

still visible
from its making

one lost windy night

the fierceness of its blue glaze

and now it contains
summer

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Rhapsody In Purple

'Rhapsody in Blue'
cascaded from the stereo speakers
swamped and swooning with sound.

'Cocktail dahling? ' you enquired teasingly
bending to kiss me.

I held on to your every word with baited breath.

I was ecstatically elated.

You divested yourself
of your outside attire
a flame red dress that had seemed on fire
(of which...I had...greatly admired)

but now lay extinguished on the kitchen floor

so that I could see
you wore

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Til Daddy Comes Home (for Ruthie)

The wind
talking with the voices

of the trees
as if a ventriloquist

or playing now
that discarded twisted trumpet

etched in frost
a long lonely note

a hanging
pub sign

THE DOG & DUCK

trying to break free
unleased by the wind's fury

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Rum & Red Bull (being a day after her birthday poem)

Out of our skull
on Rum & Red Bull

we play football
with a grinning

plastic skull
(retrieved from a skip)

using the Momento Mori
for a drunken kickabout.

You dribble
& drool it.

You shoot
I save it

tipping it over
an imaginary crossbar.

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Prayer For Elizabeth

In the morning
of my memory

you bake
apple pies.

And grow very tired

and sit very still

and sit very silent

as the camera
undresses reality

leaves you
alone

sculpted sunlight

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