River you flow on
Endless and strong.
River with your crown of reeds
Tough and tender in the wind
Slanting like the arrows of a hunter
Bent towards where the open mouth
Swallows the sea.
Eyes of coral blossom
as grey as the silent moon,
dotted with tendrilled ether
that streaks his vision apart.
Timetravel: you probably think
it’s a lot of fun, but it isn’t.
In fact, to be frank and fair,
It can be a little bit scary.
It’s getting worse,
The fear; it’s getting worse,
Year on year.
Duck into a book,
Disappear beneath the waves of words;
Sink slowly through the tides of ideas
And come to rest on the bed
At the bottom of the sea.
From there, on your back, in the deepest place,
(Where you can breathe because of magic)
Allow […]
I find myself concerned,
Now that you’re buried beneath
Some bulbs at the bottom
Of the garden, that you are cold.
Ridiculous to think of you
Lying in the soil
As like yourself as yesterday
You lay upon my lap – exhausted
By the life you’d led; […]
Each day I need
To feel the sand
From the bottom of this pool
To touch it with my open hand
Between these fingers
Across this palm;
To hold it to my heart
And only then, from in this dark,
Can I return, can I
Embrace the […]
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