To advancement

Please take this gift

Exercise caution about the distance it takes

Things in the rear view mirror often look closer than …..

These old dried tangerine peelings are also for you

Go ahead take them

They have been in my pockets for over a year somehow still ok

A reminder of a different time

We were thinking differently then

How does thought change over time?

Does time control it

Eventide damsel fly
ridiculous golfers

Smack the ball wide

Light the incense

Pursue a new kind of language

Wrench it 
spanner it outwards push it towards some kind of truth

Distinct from landscape distinct from predetermined ideas

The mean air temperature the saline levels

Inhabit a moment do

not restrict awareness

So you are sorry in a downwards pose

The line the lump the level

Scratched off to find nothing

But the frozen staircase that leads to the upper rooms

The temperate house the coffee casement

when you realise that this game is up now and forever time and being

Could not exist

Time requires a consciousness of time

Being requires a being of Being

To exist at all

Flame up for oblivion

Rattle cages

 listen

Wild weeds wrapped                                                   the flower dome

The hide sits on the salt line

Guesswork creates the distance need to take on

Species indifference  

larval

Spores born on the wing

The Big Fleet and the counter-

wall place a division between the estuary side

tidal flow

blood pressure rises

entails a metric example of moods response

the car throws a wide arc of dust

swallows burst through its motes

suspension jolts over a badly maintained access path

the screech of metal on entering some stations

bonded we are

hot lumps of flesh

the remains of industry halted                               ‘Squat like a toad close at the ear of Eve’

tokens money gold religion morality

waste greed anxiety pity

build destroy run flee

be born remember being born remember then nothing and nothings nothingness

will find you at the

remains of a pier

like you just alighted from the last train to pull in at the station

screaming in on brakes of rusted gas and crushed shingle mounds at the foot of a Red Hill

remove your boulder sack and throw it now without remorse

into the void into the air explosion

of gas and petals and pages

feel reacting enact

take a notice

place one foot in front of the other

begin to come back to breath

manoeuvre yourself into a slightly better pay bracket

enjoy yourself now

that is freedom

a deep glistening joy awaits you in the next life

in the barn owls window in the frosted fancy of your fingerless retreats

take it all wrap yourself up in the tendrils of this moment

draw it all towards you

sameness and oddity distinct in a numberless numbness

Today a coy rabbi

twisting locks lost behind three inches of lenses

now get back in line and pray with a fervour that is new

the summer light lifts you over the grass you begin to levitate

higher looking down it’s a lightness of being

such a rest you’re so tired

go to sleep now.

Around the townscape is deserted

It will take time for this community

To ‘re-build’ itself

But nothing is pre-ordained no ordinations here

Work takes its toll the graft in the dust

The particles cluster at the mental ears

Years eat away like silent rust

Entering the clearing now

              laughter speaks to another place another time

                   Glorious segments peel off from the centrifugal force

Of wild Nature unbound

a real Reality

It’s the breathing in and out

The simple quietude that pulse like the blood

In our hearts yearning

That keeps the show going

Lowliness pace of ancients’

Myth lights the way back                              look

Forwards

                                   can you see into the future?

                                                                                           Will it sting your eyes?

                                                                                        Can it be worth all this

Blood

Bitterness

Beauty

Ascending falling rising lowering

Waves crash into the shore

‘Me miserable!’

And the lowest deep a lower deep