Wednesday, 29 July 2015

the trees are on fire and yellow light's absconding the red light's in charge...

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

I translated "sleet"  in ten different languages cold gets through my bones...

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

cherry on a plate sweetness for a fly that's there many more to come...

Monday, 20 July 2015

DEAD FISH MOSAIC

Dead fish mosaic - hundreds of them in a makeshift square, and it's "seeing is believing". Eyes look at you from strange angles - strange rainbow eyes and mouths agape. Late for work, but I can't help it, and I swear the eyes will be remembered - saucer eyes that only dead fish know....

Saturday, 18 July 2015

MY IMPRESSIONIST FLOWERS

My impressionist flowers take up the canvas, but towards the edges they are not like flowers at all. I make them white streaks with no cohesion, and the stems  barely join at all. My impressionist flowers are large in number and if you count them sleepy, you will never count them all....

Friday, 17 July 2015

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

BUMPS IN THE SAND

I see bumps in the sand... I wriggle my toes in ten of the bumps, and feel them burn. Turning over, the sun scorches my back, and I am sleepy. "In a little while, Sally! Give me some peace on this sandy beach..." But Sal insists, and I must walk on lots of bumps back to the hotel and salad lunch....

ISLV

ISLV on broad band of yellow Slipped between the green and green Liked it immensely Vert - the French for green ****************************** (Acrostic poem about the flag of the Society Islands)...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

POT PLANTS ON WHITE TILES

Pot plants on white tiles arranged in zigzags. If I skimmed my eyes, they made me dizzy. In them, geraniums from mom's shop, and Daz arranged them fancy-style.  I loved those little pots, and in the morning, when Daz had taken out the flowers, the pots still made me stare....

Thursday, 9 July 2015

DISBAR

Disbelief at Lincoln's Inn In the law's new dawning. Solicitors force some tongues to wag... Barrister is gone from there, And rumours of the petty why Reach crownèd, pretty queen....

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

I'VE NEVER HAD A 4TH JULY

I've never had a 4th July; never seen the flags with stars and stripes. I sit in this boat by Bartholdi's monument... The Statue of Liberty wants me to arrive. I'll live in New York and eke existence while waiting to climb up greasy pole. Then will be a a June and then July, thus one, two, three, a fourth. On the 4th, I shall wave my flag to you, and be on the highest skyscraper known to man. I'll...

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

MOSAIC GIRL

A mosaic girl coming down mosaic steps  to greet him, and it wasn't them there glasses. He took them off, just in case it was, but she was stunning, surely? A mosaic face with a mosaic mouth to ravish and to kiss this Sunday morning.  ...

HEAT

The sun full-blazing on the bristling shore. People have started to go home. A burning skin is not what they have come for. Brief tanning only, in their needs. Spoiling the day before it is half-done. Motors are hot in the densely-filled car-park. Black gulls are on them for a lark... Kids are crying for their mothers now, indeed. Go... before the fat car-park clerk* Collects his too big, irritating...

ALL IS WELL

Cattle graze in yellow pasture and the hills are awash with buzzing bees. All is well in the land of heroes that come after... All is well for me. Fishes swim in clear-strung river, and valleys are attuned to birds that sing. All is well in the land of heroes that come after. All is well for me.  ...

Sunday, 5 July 2015

DO MELONS GROW IN JAVA?

Do melons grow in Java, and do poems grow as well? Do you see them line by line? I must come to Java soon... There we will eat melons and you can read your poems. You must read them to me, line by wicked line. Then we will go swimming in your pool shaped like a melon. You always were unpractical, but I adore your long love lines....

TENEBRISTAS

The painting had darkness in immensity - three-fourths. There might have been bats, but we could not see them. We only saw the exit from the cave... Here were jagged lines depicting rock, and an emerald sea beyond....

THE KISS

I saw them kiss in silhouette, Janette and Franco... Kiss was long, so long. Loosely her blouse did hang. It was their special moment....

Saturday, 4 July 2015

Muffled Drums

Muffled drums were at the funeral, and black horses stood still. The watery sun made brief appearance there and was, just as quickly, gone. The Queen looked dignified, in the way that rulers have... Still we listened to the drums. Still, we were inordinately sad....

PATTERNS

Patchwork butterflies are on the wing... - It is good, summer-time in France when we can see all patterns. Mind you, winters are cool - patterning branches, twigs assisting in fancy game of "Look"....

Thursday, 2 July 2015

FORTUNE TREE

From a strong spout, water falls into a trough. People come to cool themselves and dip clammy hands into the water. I come to tell their fortune, but people don't believe me. I'm under what's called Fortune Tree. The council erected it for me....