The content of landscape

‘From being imagined,’

                                        In spite of a disturbed world

Hot dangerous Japanese day dreams

Killer whales in pods swim in your dream oceans

New prescriptions, new horizons, bending latitudes

Trace the arc of that back pain down to the base of your spine

The post traumatic shock of birth

Both being born and birthing this music is the colour of derelict punks 

You sigh and a world is blown apart

Ancient river of joggers blossoms now

The dredger makes his way through silted waterways

Water curses and courses 

Swoon round the Hackney delta, the Riviera
 River Area.

Rainham, lone horse field more rain 

Solid gold meat wizards with a hard spot for you crushed into

The carvery cavalry.

“What’s the weather like tomorrow?’

“Shit.”

Graffiti tags of Moist, Span, Time and Taste

Grow along the tracks natural as lichen they are almost invisible unless you appreciate

Their wit and ingenuity.

Riding the Medway express bouncing and rattling over the rails

A million pies fly past the windows rain sloshed and frost oh look over there the outline of a castle.

Obscure South London stations break off into rolling fields and combs and wolds.

Bold ideological opposition is what is required from Generation Left they say.

I say “I asked for the vegetarian option”; mesmerised by a clearly meat susage that has been delivered by mistake.

You and I are merely a failed business venture, a vacant lot cancelled out by down time.

                                  Where it happened

                       When existence                   

                                                                               Ran away 

What with 

                                                 All the Being

            Now                                                                                         what

Your                                                                                        tired

                        Walk.                                       Once

Now                                                     over

                                                            Here?