all day long
Lake Ratapiko laps
a summer lament
February 2017
shrove tuesday
my whakapapa stacked
against me
no moon tonight
for my words to muse on
bare-faced death
just an apple
scored
beneath a tree
all about
tundra
defrosting
finale —
the wind mumbles on
about bees
the slow swell
of ripeness into
feijoas
just this once
and no other
acid reign
morphing words into
the one ring
star-gazing
within Salome's
seven veils
birth cry
the silence around
these words
quiet now
flesh felt scent
aquiver
morning light
is my awakening
again stillborn
still unborn
the weight of light
in his coffin
trailing off
in a whisper of wish
summer clouds
breathing out
words of consecration
breathed out
all the words
ever uttered
tidal flats
toon world . . .
Mickey and Donald
take the cake
(post US Trump/Pence inauguration)
dark is life
dark is death
das lied
von der erde
(after Gustav Mahler)
far away —
the sound of water
filling gaps
dawn chorus . . .
the theme echoes on
in the dew
a vast sky —
shards of darkness
hold the whole
heat wave . . .
a pond shuffles off
its sheen
dawn vigil . . .
light, in silence,
becomes light
desolate beach —
loneliness gnaws away
the edges
somewhere a tv
numbs the sound of nothing —
moonless night
morning fog —
brushstrokes from a dream
painting light
traces of dreams . . .
high winds shape cumuli
pregnant with change
fossil forest —
incoming waves obscure
a distant past
summer stream —
a mayfly breeding
shadows
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