hectic light of the day she saw the city in the pebble of rainwater

hectic light of the console

hectic switches on the console the city trapped in the pebble of rain
hectic wires hanging from the ceiling pearls of rain

remorseful light the fire roared up (towards the sky)

thick-moted sunlight
feathery light starlight in the inky river
when the river ran dry, they found starlight lying
light leaching upwards at the bottom
leaching into the room
light leaching up her skin the flicker of bonfire in his eyes
worry leaching into her mind ancient future

even light felt the floors swaying, the walls shifting

hot feet on grass (intense sensations)
heard a cloud pass overhead
hair the colour of dandelion fuzz felt the static of a gathering storm
a tingling on her skin like dandelion fuzz brushing the tingle of a gathering storm
past
…we are naked. our anger, our pain, our anguish,
head filled with dandelion fuzz our shame…are clear to the whole world.
mouth thick with cotton
lightstruck trees
shifty eyes lightstruck grass
shifty gaze lightstruck glass
shifty clouds lightstruck panes
lightstruck eyes
a jungle of electric wires
electric wires dangling like jungle vines the whim of data
a jungle of wires anxiously matrixed
anxiously entwined
sunrise in her eyes
caught the sunrise in her eyes stars unravelling in the sky
clouds unravelling in the sky
detached mercy clouds unravelling into wisps
detached politeness clouds unravelling into rain
detached concern clouds unravelling into air

visiting light of day peculiarly longwinded

endearingly longwinded
moted rays of sunlight endearingly laconic
dusty light brutally laconic
dusty rays of sun
early darkness
black and grievous as gaps between the teeth gathering darkness

black and grievous chasm/sky
rain pelting the windows
pebbles of rainwater clinging on to the glass
pebbles of rainwater glistening
pebbles of rain glistening
sit by the side of the road, watching the sun set
wide still shafts of morning light
unmoving shafts of noonlight
sterile noonlight
slice of time the sky reddened over the city
feathery dust
bristling with light unending nightmares of traffic and fire
bristling with heat
bristling with righteousness delicate network of gridroads
delicate city
a rootless wind the city delicate through rain and glass
scattered like a dandelion the city delicate through misted glass
the sky
stirred to life sun deepened into a smoky flare
barren as the sky
sky deepened into a grievous purple
valleys in his face
folds on his papery skin scalded the clouds vermillion

hot, dusty air cloud shadows rushing over the city

white noise on the radio clouds shadows rushing over the fields
dark noonlight fog eddied around their feet

in full sun hair the colour of smoke

velvety night eyes the colour of bonfire smoke
velvety river autumn twilight
velvety water flowing past hair the colour of autumn leaves
eyes the colour of autumn twilight
wind touching the panes rusting haze
wind-touched hair sky the colour of rust
wind-touched panes a rusting haze in the sky
wind-touched grass
wind stilled awoke from a dreamless sleep

dense light of the city winter blue eyes

wildgrasses tremble in the wind glittering shambles

hair the colour of wildgrass
eyes the colour of wildgrass
roiling river
roiling wind
the air hums
wildgrass waving in patches of sun
standing in patches of sun
bent time
slow blood on their hands
slow blood on her hands
weeds and ashes drowsing in twilight
trees drowsing in twilight
dust blowing in darkness
dark sweet afternoons of storm and rain
lanterns strung between trees
cold and battering sea
sea battered the cliffs
keening wind
wind battering the roof
broken stones, water seeping into the seams
her eyes had a pale cast
eyes that looked nowhere
darkened like wood left in the rain
sight darkened
woken chilled to sudden cold

a rat in a biologist’s bell jar battered fences

silent dogs
wound into sleep hectoring crows
unravelled into sleep crows hectoring to the sun

black and white exhaustion pink sun slanting through the hall
waves of exhaustion dripping sun melt into the sea
battered by exhaustion
battered by the elements joy, undeserved and pure
anger, undeserved and pure
white eyeless faces
a nest of shadows dripping music
dazed from the sun sweet dark music
syrupy music
midnight blue hollow music
static grey music the colour of aged wood
static blue
raw green terminally unique
toxic green
of soot and silver
glimmering veins
veins glimmering red unblinking eyes of a doll
raw luster of metal stared unblinking

moonset wind-tunnel sound

threadlike
tuneful deaths shadowless depths of noon
moon-flooded sands slender wildflowers
moon-flooded plains
mural bright as candy
pearls in seawater unconcealed light
ocean cradled it
breathed together a long time
daybreak in his eyes velvety grey
the chill of daybreak
unlivable house
keep your snide remarks to yourself shining like a highway
storing up sunlight
charred blossoms
naked desperation roses in an azure bowl
unfettered anger
unfettered silence a piece of ourselves, a bit of the world
unfettered light of the city
unfettered strength unfinished, unentire

twisted mouth dead white

stormlit eyes leaves scatter like foam
sunlit eyes distant wilderness of stars
moonlit eyes murmuring night
electric eyes
flourescent-lit a great watery animal breaking itself on the rocks
neonlit eyes sending up stars of salt, loud clouds of plume
candle-lit eyes
build-up of weather

breezes of divinity
liquid ruins of the sea outside
bending trees and flattening fields
gold as morning
morning fills the grass
light gave over to shadow
night gave way to morning

an alien wind slept in the branches bright steps into the sky
dead leaves turned to dust on the streets
spider webs spin like little galaxies
heat stroking our skins
morning sunlight sprawled on the damp
half-dark pavement
cloud
wind hustling our wants away
s warming like loaves
stained clouds
a full moon white as his eyes red-stained sky
a full moon white as a pearl apple-stained clouds
pearl-white moon
a full moon white as milk red as an artery
arterial red
idly moored airless blue
idle boats
idle as wild cars on the highway fitful light

provoke the air handful of sleep

black mist
low creeping mist/fog inscribed in the heart

uptilted spine shining like a minted coin

eyes mist over
bladed light (of winter sun)
idle trees
thread of the heart light fell like a membrane
where clouds are born
dew burdened raw luster over his skin, like a membrane
light fell over him like a membrane
bury your winter dreams
ghost gather bare limbs of a tree
where dust and ghosts gather bare tines of a tree

appled clouds crisp light

a shade untrue shadowy overhang

milking their veins burn like altar flames
darkness drip in smoking like incense on the altar
letting the darkness drip in splendor of little fragments

shut close like a shell skinless

dew crystal clouds under cloud

cloud over cloud raging dust
stunned sky
dry grey sky
sky the colour of old chalk bundles of wind in the grass
graying gold
blown and sour dust
scattering shadows
eased into her heart a smatter of shadows
a smatter of clouds
hums like a fuse a smatter of grass
a smatter of grey
body of ash a smatter of light

heard it burning shells and wings

black branches of winter trees
still places
listless birds
fearful joy
terrifying joy
trees festooned with light
light-festooned trees
dripping light
light dripping onto the lawn
light dripping…?
dripping lights hang on the trees
lights dripping from the trees
the sound of circling airplanes
the sound of a descending plane
the roar of a descending plane
golden hairs of sunlight along her shoulders
black sounds of night music
dark sounds of night music
dark sounds of the wind
dark sounds of the sea
white sounds of the sea
static sounds of the sea
like a kite at the end of its string
empty sleeve of the day
rain starting to fall
no trace of a story line
gauze curtains
curtains thin as gauze on wounded knees
a morning dark with spring

sterile snow shine like maggots

mounded snow shine like beetle shells
mounded earth shine like amphibian skin
impulse of wind
how sweet is yesterday’s noise
dividing endlessly how sweet the past is, no matter how wrong,
clouds dividing endlessly how sad.

rain-streaked notebook the ocean was like regret

freezing winds
frenzied winds unburden itself
stirring winds dust unburdening itself

gray morning soothing hand of the dark

forges of hopelessness
drank coffee from a cracked cup clouds dragging the sky

raging of winter ghostly litany

raging winter
slivers of moonlight cutting the river
moonlight slicing the river
voices drifting like smoke
daily light
tin stars
my past has come and gone
april glaze
summer glaze
dark shell of the ear
cold pearl of the sky
wind skidding across the water
iron-blue
sea-heavy air
salt-heavy air
dew-heavy air
dead moths drifting and turning
grey cloth of daylight
pools of water like blotted ink
summer streaked
single electric light
how the light fell
time is the villain in most tales
moist curls of….
dark curls of time
august licks at the pine trees
how easily summer fills the room
grace of solitude and tall trees
raging with insomnia
raging with sleeplessness
raging sleepless
stars leaking into the sea
sun leaking into the sea
city glistened in the raindrop
city trapped in a raindrop
starlight trembling in the river
moonstruck river
lightstruck earth
septic light
velvety light
roiling voice
roiling song
a song roiling in his heart
sky darkened over the city
dark threads of music
dark ribbons of sound
dark ribbons of her voice
dark strains of music
a nest of shadows sprung to life
spinning in sunlight
sleepy blue
city-light unfettered by rain/night
darkness unfettered
darkness seeped into
river of night
unfettered river of darkness
unfettered hand of dark
depths of twilight
mottled depths of the moon
unconcealed face of the moon
hidden light
ruined by rain
sun-ruined face
ruined by wind
ruined by sea
pulsing like a vein
pulsing like an artery
light sliced the room into triangles
light fell like a cloak
light fell, a veil over the bare limbs of a tree
hiding in still places
raging night
raging light of city
quiet raging of a faraway storm
quiet raging of the faraway sea
silent raging
raging helplessly
how easily night fills the room dregs of the afternoon
dredges of the day
singing hearts light-rinsed / night-rinsed / rinsed by cold
stretched the summer sun vacant as the eye
drank of the silence mid-morning ebb
cold odor of smoke an ounce of darkness
seething odor of meat an ounce of shadow
warm odor of wood night limping into the fields
soothing odor of wood limp as sea-leaves
dark odor of wood build-up of night / weather
warmth unravels sleep
driven to darkness grained light
time-bitten earth turning like a river
heavy with smoke tossing like a river
stillness across the morning
deepened to mist a still web stretched across the day
grain through our fingers
slow rust of things luminance
slow rust of time stillness of stones
clouds assemble
steep rain turning to snow drop of fire
bright bandages of fog
soft, unguarded faces settled like feathers
dreaming river cold-eaten
steeped smell of wood ruin-riddled
shadow of the wound
a door that bursts into sky drifting like lint
residue of happiness desire and its aftermath
sun-up among bird calls and the faint prattle of unwreckable
rain settling like sand dollars
merciless drumming of rain breakwater in the sun
ghost ship
stale water fluttering light
walking in the long shadows of warehouses shutter of light
harsh relief
a little brown mouse of a woman detritus of light
lagoon light
memory of rain cloud blaze
smell of a new season rising above--- dark passage of the woods
new grass rising into moonlight summer seeped to its end
grass blowing in the field all night night seeping through the house
going back to the little hollows where we came dog our footsteps
from soft-aired night
wind-covered earth
violent air shouts out its rags of speech light ghosting through
a silver light sprayed across the bed cloud-scrumbled sky
ticked towards dawn smoke curling around him
ghostly crests her scent curling around him
the sea and I breathed in and out as one wind tore through
a week of long rains that filled the marsh her scent taking life of its own
woodsmoke
last leaves tarnished and fell deep sleep of summer
light-flocked foams out brilliant and sea white, then sinks away
electric voices wave borne and wave washed
lashing light stippled trees/shadows
a lash of light tiny pillar of smoke
lisp of clouds plume of cloud, light, dust, fire
lisp of wind hollow grasses
lick of light spittle of notes
sunlight lapping in golden fuse in the deadly trees
light-stung white wind
star-stung chalky sky
wind-stung compassed corners
glistering field shadows of blue spruce
high water in all the creeks unstill
trees down from wind and wet unlid their crystal eyes
hard rain and hard frost dust-dour road
clustered and white slow lopes of tall grasses
unreached by the sun southbound clouds, wind, light
hoarding some hurt or another hurled along by the wind
sleeved light in wingbeats and increments
a sleeve of light a day of high winds
sunfall smudged flowers
rustle across the skin swells like sunrise
steal our breath swells like a dream
clouds burble and build close of day
low hum scars of unknowing
mirrors anxious and blank scars of knowing
waters lisp in the speckled woods light, silky and rare, drapes through
tentative feet feral light
handful of sleep clouds disintegrate
luminous world clouds scrumble upon each other
grass yields clouds skiff
rose unbidden sun-struck
scabbard of clouds tepid
bladed light birdless sea
sunblade light strikes from the ice
rain pierce the earth clouds of snow assault the air
rain pierced the sunlight/mist/night chord of wind
sunset soaks down to the sea a chord of light
night-stained fields the star flares on the ocean
tenuous threads light splayed across the ocean
morsel of light limbs of light
wings furled stayed breath
light unfurling light, chill and yellow
drained blue from the sky deep bare garden
dry wind in dry grass leaves drift unswept
rasping wind salted, shrunken lakes
hums, without pause, without mercy bare and sunscrubbed room
heavy and wan room tiny, clear, sparkling armada of promises
brutish light evening came in across the fields
gold leaf of sunlight all your variants of grace
silence wide as a wasteland grass creeps unmown
breath-stealer silence brewed
tenement snapping off the stem between thumb and
scuttling with voices forefinger
sober and industrious scraps of talk
a life reprehensibly perfect silence wearing thin
scour the sky hands like nervous butterflies
scouring eyes dulcet rot of flowers
eyes scoured my mind eyes gone blind with leaves
indistinct air bitter yellow stars
travelling skies wind scoured the sea
a cloud stands shawled in blond hair
mist of leaf shawled in the hoar
mountain clear shawled in frost
even so distant, I can taste the grief shawled in sea-waves
unhurried day shawled in wild grasses
breathless stair shawled in light
desolate attic shawled in salt and sea
days unspent shawled in dust
nothing, like something, happens anywhere shawled in dusty winds
rain patters on asea that tilts and sighs shawled in rain
a wave drops like a wall shawled in dusk
undisturbed embers scrim of a sea breeze
looped with the creep of unvarying light scrim of wind
looping light scrim of snow
dumb idleness scrim of hair
bright with the coldest dew scrim of air
the day/night assembles scrim of darkness
a waste of thistles scrim of tears
running skies scrim of rain
memory unloosens/unravels belling dresses
my tongue untied belling wind
the light untying my mind belling gown
leaping wind knock of the small, new heart
shining trees knock of the small, new life
light soil/thin soil sliver of moon
drink of the mind looping wind
weariness of daybreak looping dust
carrion kisses/ carrion farewell axle of winter
straying winds axle of night grinds on, bearing down on the city
soundless river scathing light
endless shore scathing radiance
if grief could burn out, like a sunken coal scathing heat
cold hill of stars scathing day
rain driving across a darkening autumn scathing night
shuttered house scathing wind
if hands could free you, heart, where would you a line of breath
fly? a line of light
stormless sea/land/hills a line of morning
sun drifts away a line of rain
summer broke and drained a line of cold
provincial winter a line of warmth
taste of strawberries turned thick and sour a line of residual warmth
a line of dawn
a line of dusk swift and bright morning
starless water swift and bright winter
dark, starless water swift night
the colour of rust swift light
sneering wind swift wind
the wind’s sneer swift and bright wind
bloom upside down swift voice
blood quickens tempered light
night quickens tempered wind
morning quickens tempered voice
cold quickens tempered night
summer quickens fringe of river
afternoon quickens hollow shadows
tend to the fire hollow light
tend to the light hollow of shadows
tend to the water hollow of night
white fist of light hollow night
small fist of light hollow dawn
crumbling like a dead cigarette hollow breath
words like marble hollow smoke
voice like marble fringe of reeds
marbled light pickle of light
marbles of light pickling light
marbles of rain branches of light
marbles of shadow trees of light
light, swift and sweet hills step off into whiteness
a chipping wind perilous air
a wind chipped sharp sullen light
the chipped air stark violence
a chipped morning seasick and fever-dry
bell-clear morning feverish light
bell-clear voice feverish wind
wooly light flaying wind
wooled light signet of jade
yarns of light soft and brittle (charred bones)
threads of light
threads of wind a path strewn with yellow leaves
threads of water wine heated in a cauldron in the verandah
threads of night two fish in water
gather to a sharp morning sorghum fields
gather to a gold haze jealous jar of vinegar
gather to a rusty haze
gather to a blue dawn a slope of buckeye trees
gather to a moonless night a slope of moonlight
stream edged the forest a slope of stars/starlight
float like prayers a slope of sunlight
soft skulls of a slope of dry grass
night folds a slope of wildflowers
morning folds a slope of copper sand
light folds sloping wind
afternoon folds
song and speed
a thread of grass
a thread of flowers
a thread of wind
a thread of night
a thread of summer
a thread of spring

summer folded
day folded into night
sunlight folded
folds of light

crowded trees
crowded breath
crowded light
crowned trees
crowned light

a crown of light
a crown of wind
a crown of grass

slippery red wood

slippery ribbon

a cauldron of light

broken path
broken stones
broken night
broken light
broken rocks and bones

strewn with rocks and bones

small white book

small white leaf
small white stream

field hospital

a path of gorse

litter of light
litter of stones
litter of bones

high branches of oak

night dividing endlessly
rain dividing endlessly