Any

To reach go
and not be impeded
by in-place-of
was a timely reminder
of any time, any place, anywhere…

Go

It is time for me to risk precision in piecing together exact lapses in concentration by straddling the hand of a stopwatch.

Here

‘It was a kind of struggle that she was pursuing with him, a silent dispute through which she asked him for and gave him justification.’ p5

“she is there… at intervals taut between false and true
where the point is pointed: do I hear what is said?
or recur to him now as at first, when the page,
ceaselessly blank, forms words out of probability
“operating a donation” neither later nor early
to him, I say…

after after after

‘He understood quite well that she had possibly forgotten everything.’ p4

After all, some approaches hide
their potency out in the open.
Shutting the un-sayable in with
the thinkable is scarcely
walking the ridge of someone.

They Said

He
She

a no-rapport understanding
the depth of no-rapport
of a deeper rapport than
surfaces by itself to a
a rapport by itself which
deeper rapport which only
is only the surface to
understands no at surface
the no-rapport depth of
and depth as

He
She
He

Caught Up

for Celia

When long lost
fords a short cut
to hello
understanding sprawls across time
twiddling its thumbs
while fingers burn.

Awaiting Less

“; he had questioned her in a more urgent manner by his silence,” p.2

by
overlapping questions
silence sounded
answered -
it was a solution
awaiting literal problems

The Last Resort

Out cold with evidence of sketchy signs
unnaturally seeing the sights
as ally in the shallow drive to hush-hush
before firing plans to shake the cartoon off the page.

Collected Thoughts

Instead of writing I pierced some words and mounted them on pins, like butterflies, to admire the species.

Under

Due to bad visibility under the floorboards today, it’s doubtful that any pins dropped.

Position

Long-standing is prone to shifting feet behind someone’s scenes. Seeing sides for the taking, a part fits the place if not the person. Casually balancing this act between who and why.

Improbable kindness
even in dream, where we still trust,
turns predisposition turtle.

Onward

Air; that much needed soaring substance
borrows the h from height
just for fun, you could say
or to boldly split infinite hairs.

Home

The backlash of glee buckled me into a moment
unforeseen yet anticipated
as a matter-of-course, of course.

Stiffening the lip of return
against equilibrium,
brings home being home, again.

Intermittent Intermission

Two weeks
coupled with pause
= back soon.

Subjective

Startled objects
take liberties

by beguiling matter
into being presently tense,

teasing embodiment
to another level.

Into

Having clambered out-of-into, relief lived.
Until a peep, in quarrel with apathy,
won the look.

Combined with distance you’ll find
curiosity lends molehill a telescope.

The Blue

What becomes of blue when sky leaks late
deliveries too posthumous even to resurrect
a meagre shelter.

In opposition to atmosphere we say “out of or into”
as if nothing did come.

When

When there is nothing left to burn but the stake, which is commonly viewed as fairly decent fire wood, you could say that it was time to go electric. Can I suggest the Hendrix heater which, it must be said, has the drawback of only being effectively switched on by an experienced left-handed engineer, who for the duration of the heater’s use has to be employed by you under the terms and conditions laid out in his handbook, which includes such idiosyncrasies as his right to believe the said heater is working when it clearly is not and the possibility of his right hand seeking similar employment at a later date.

All Ears

The hand that sidesteps the bite, feeds itself
on the back of a camel whose leading straw
broke on the road to Rome.