DISASTERS, WITH EGGS (A MERGER)

 

time drips epoxy resin 

 

revelations uncanny                             

                                                    black horses, wild on the ridge

 

 

here before                                            chair collapses

 

we've been here before 

 

mostly we sat in our rooms.                         frantic skylark       knotted manes

 

Anglo-Saxon settlement

                                                  memory is invoked by manure

 

the kids watched TV 

 

furtive past crawled out to meet present                      tadpole dancing in puddles

 

                contorted

memory moved into place

                                                             family cells

carving up the vacant field

 

out behind the cabin

                                                           we stake a claim

 

 

nothing here apart from the birds                       oak 

furrowed time

 

 

also the smells

in this way we gouged a life.