blissed out

 

soft light on the tall brick

and crow-tattered ash tree

sweet william dark purple like eyes closing

 

 

 

Sunset Observed

 

The sky peaches out so you know

there’s no chance for anything.

 

Lakes forget who they are.

Whole towns lose their car keys.

 

The valleys dishevel with rooks.

An angler wades

the deep blurred everything.

 

In this blindness, a bleeding gem.

You drive headlong,

 

light strobes through bare woods,

their raised arms

a dancefloor ending.

 

 

one more definition of poetry

 

a fly jewelled

on the outstretched foot of someone

only sleeping

 

 

Dawn Mist

 

An airbus-sized pigeon taxis

between brickwork and trees.

 

Spiders on complex shrubs

fish rain pearls.

The lamps withdraw.

 

 

London

 

Lamps butterflied by cement works

and a skerry of broken skateboards.

 

In the name of progress

pigeons birth

from pigeon-coloured water.