Like flouting and fluttering planes
Gone with midnight a cool breeze
Remembrance quickly jumps
The superlative strength of millennia.
Twilight is complete
The streetlights have ignited
Stark looks in the corners of eyes
The silver chill drowning.
It’s a day & you are you
Eating lunch, tautologically inclined;
Shirt pockets full of debris
Entire continents
Where many lived, disappeared
There were periods when oranges
Had the power to overawe the sun,
The chunky rhythms of nostalgia…
No more waiting in this novella!
All the swings, slides & monkey bars
Catch an unselfconscious smile
(like a march-fly in the sticky
Subterfuge of a Venus flytrap
Producing the fructified arrangements
Highly suitable for toe jam) bumping along
Like hitchhikers in the back of a Ute.
Running hands across Spiky blades
the dream woman stands before me
arms in the air, lifting her jumper
slightly from jeans ― soft, pale skin;
Stupendous body, enormity of touch
Speaking to stay silent for the future
Two men made of water watch a man drown
In the cruellest ocean’s hacked foundation.
Why wrestle the channel corset?
There’s no destination.
We wander the fleshy rind of a gigantic pear,
Fascinated by nature’s fantastic, targetless volition.
Part Two
She turns slowly.
No longer apprehensive
That earth’s shell slices open
Welcoming the leaf
We comprehend chord sounds
Waist high in sunflowers
The ground does pirouettes
The Ferris wheel lets another off
The Ferris wheel lets another on.
Collisions at the train station
Lead to Eros
At an unknown address
Two wattlebirds attack a raven.
No human is observing.
after a slog of a day on my ferris wheel, this is perspective and sublimity.