I
come along
smoke in tunnels

earth's
high altars
the crushed finials

slowly
my sad
my limited answer

invaded
caved human
trapped into night

causes
are obscured
sad eternal consequences

ticking
machine heat
time changes sky

culpable
persistent graceful
my sad answer

white
towers came
distance to ground

parts
of world
ached with energy

graceful
a voice
slow and sad

my
body labour
acts in changes

to dream whenever lights go


We
may be
afraid of need

the
very sound
of the portal

between
the ever
and this reality.

Perhaps
you feel
there’s something jerky

about
the music
inserted at horizons

though
it once
had been sedated.

Perhaps
the trees
will stand willingly

sounding
strange wind-up
notes like strings

as
midnight specials
to remember, again.

 

Interior
morning register
exaggerates daily danger

*

Stairs
renew windows
organise east balance

*

Therefore
to end
where existence enters

*

Knowledge's
internal conclusions
vibrates considered rain

*

Given
yesterday's regulations
the ash began

*

Collapse
of forms
an outside possibility

*

Abundance
equips fabric
this outside broken

*

Until
my night
taste equips hours

*

Letters
depending dust
too many problems

*

Morning
fixed in
newspaper more cold

*

Chronometer
drops ash.
Here's the rise!



*

sounds
across us
senses of traffic

let
me off
that hook slow

holding
in passages
pushing the wall

skirling
over willows
wherever we can

ants
and cows
watch our hips

curled
being born
turning with delicacy

open
tunnels into
loving calamitous world



walking / and typing

cob-
ble slips
rain ahead

stone
cement
blonde on blonde

la!
there and
there blossoms

dead
writers
live/script/on

books
books books
livres paris

dogs
doggies
dog shit slip

'a'
where 'q'
should be, slips


- some quick notes on the journey



*

cold
in the
night frosty shake

stretched
in the
throat and tongue

air
rushes through
the last hour

stars
hard to
get in beam

looking
up into
dust and tripways

transit
of Venus
in the air


*


Had I been
faceless I
would

not have felt
the colder
rain

flocks seek me
like air
if

I had risen
once ongoing
after

quiet had I
been faceless
I

would not have
felt colder
rain


*

look
long  valley
before night is

light
I am
not like moves

into
me and
skin no barrier

pink
transparent gold
better than god

you
can reach
because I have

felt
atoms mingle
or flutters breeze

skin
fine coaxed
planet hairs surprise

darkness
gets greener
the storm arrives

need
to cross
machine or dog

bowls
light empty
time takes slow

hours
repeat never
the same even

sleep
as valley
rustle up dark

up
night stars
full of names


*

I
go low
as grey light

distance
tears me
from my head

sky
dances sun
so slow now

tunnels
steer me
into the cold

I
go now
where words tear

tired
song slapped
against sound catchers

resistance
moves me
into long voice

night
blurs lines
against open gates

I
go now
into home light

threaded
poured ached
gone and open


*

mean
war was
sworn on ever


 *


Morning
drops blossom
wet black boughs



flowers

clivia
chinese lantern
the orange flowers

but
not the
orange heat yet



drafts

there's
nearly always
colour in it



impermanent tenses 4

Swept
across news
sun helpless against

I
fly easy
wings rattle shame

You
got me
against the fence

Way
you do
shame on you

Elbows
shadow scaffolds
halfway up, into

God
among clouds
several versions believe

Songs
creation machines
dot aspirations/ blow!

Advertise
right buttock
keeping the score

Front
page morning
a sliding puzzle

People
look up
sex+civil+war

My
dragon statue
tacks the corner

Ready
to lie
in the corner



Sydney rain today

rain
down does
as hills disappear

rains
not small
but blurred layers

rained
one seagull
climbs the chill


*

morning
sweeping washing
bottlebrush is out

visitors
for Annette
photographers with cakes

dogs
won fireworks
in the valley

between
all work
is getting done

listening
new nick
cave is good

sound
and smell
of night rain



smell of smoke

summer
sends signals
its smoky air

begin
day's song
saxophone/guitar/percussion

found
virgin beauty
melbourne cd shop

one
month ago
in the grey

such
a find
great ornette coleman

dancing
and swinging
in the free air



tomorrow

form
empty again
becomes the river

phone
won't stop
disturbing the gloom

hang
up and
lie back down

tomorrow
there's three
years of it


messy clouds

suddenly
everyone runs
away in clouds

tired
and scattered
had too much

it's
fine it's not
and yet again

sweat
is real
so is rain



malt

golden
the cliche
tickles my throat

scots
or irish
it sings within

sea
or rock
we drink it

hear
the river
and the song

by the river

sighing
in mangroves
along with she-oaks

we
speculate outside
with the wind

golf
at midnight
on the islands

kids
are tigers
slinging an iron

it's
expensive living
on the ridge



at limits?

poised
or posed
at the limit

sun
there and
behind also sun

if
the past
is a metaphor

truth
dives lies
into the words

sun
them and
behind also words


Tuesday 29 March
(reading Rimbaud and Tranter over a coffee)




this morning

fog
that sits
on our houses



regarding pain

bodies
fall onto
their own shadows



still not got

yup
still not
got some words

to
say or
say a lot

i
write i
read adding up

words
like fees
for my life


friday night

cars
go by
does this seem

wrong
within the
basics of Friday

how
the lights
shine less lonely


*

this rain
shivers on us
again

but again
that rare thing
extemporises

grey lain
among the green
or

orange lights
chase moving shadows
there

between road
and rotting rail
impasse

an action
of the state
anxious

sheeting
the lifting jet
fears

goes into
the seeded clouds
passing

we pass
as we go
into

[28 September 2005, 4.45pm]


*

cool
is coming
smell its air

like
sea a
breeze is sound

hot
and hard
to think well



sixteen ferneries

sixteen
days without
television - and so ...

screen
has no
angles no size

no
mountains trees
and no smell

to speak of
apart from
something ...

sixteen days without -
instead poems
aloud

and air aloud
with water
ferneries

note for 2006

stop explaining forget
backstory and
act

how
much fuel
do you need

to play free
with the
moment



heart hay(na)ku

And
how sound
changes the heart

shave
or switch
the time beat

listen
through skin
and in terror

that
something will
amiss or change

heart
through sound
beat that skins

amiss
the switch
to time heart


yellow lily hay(na)ku

Day     by day     they are dying

as     day by     opening into yellow

into the stream     to die     living

into the green     seen     through water

glass/lumen/split     the curve     falls

onto     an imaginary     and real table


Three angles on the dance

Are
the circumstances
as ghastly as

you
think? Or
is it sun

melting
all to
flesh? Or somehow

I’ve
become cadaverous
on a table.

//

Death
has no
emotion. This is

what
we twigged.
It’s the music

of
the rays
past a state

of
the heart
into the dance.

//

Love
we shared
accordion, strings. Darkness

dangles
its allure.
Supreme court of

magic
its propulsion
where, ever thankful

lights
out territory
of the further.


variations on the marinade

ginger
air's source
palm the sugar

line
juice along
the light soul

so
it's chilly
drink me wine

*

more
news dies
in the body

illusions
rise to
lines of trees