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The House
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Opening a door onto empty dusty darkness
I heard a sound, a scuttling sound
it could be a mouse, but I don’t think so.
I went down into the cellar
and saw something on a table
it was surrounded by strange tools
I thought it moved...now I hear wings…
Leprous mottlings of disturbing fungi
suggesting tracks of what should never be found
and I’d heard the tales of old Seth and Eb
who lost their minds after digging a well
which no line could sound.
Now I hear wings
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Weeds
02:46
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The Statue
01:06
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The gardener told me
a certain statue in the forgotten part of the garden:
“...it cries in the night.”
I walked through long neglected courtyards
past crumbling walls down paths forgotten
till there I saw the statue.
It looked like it could have cried.
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Rainy
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Rain fell for days
grey green wet wind
fences get mossy
traintracks and mausoleums
bricks blacken, mud moves
coulds descend in silence
Picking up bones out of gravel
after the flood’s gone into the ground
fossilised shell comes to light
under the grey clouds rainbow.
Rocks roll into the road
thistles and wild vines spread
cupped things hold rain
stagnating in lost jars
hidden below leaves.
Picking up bones out of gravel
after the flood’s gone into the ground
fossilised shell comes to light
under the grey clouds rainbow.
The old courthouse smells of dried wood. no one is ever there except the lady who sells postcards but she stays in her room, or the spot just outside the door, suspiciously.
Upstairs we played the old pump organs dustily, a creaky melody wheezes and reverbs around ridiculous sewing machines in other rooms. The pigeon-ey belfry is roped-off, the stairs get darker and hotter, it must be dangerous and probably haunted.
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Spiders
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Descendents of dinosaurs have sometimes gathered in my garden,
to feast upon the spiders which proliferate in the rank grasses in certain types of weather.
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The Drawing
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You always start first with my eyes
except when you’re serious then it’s my ears
I think I begun to know why
it’s my way of communicating with you
I know you’re here, I’ve seen you and heard you
sometimes when you’re not even there.
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Plates
02:46
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Continents collide, can’t you feel their friction
calling down to a golden bowl
where I am reminded
that our lives move over.
Then the air and land turning gold reminds me
of our lives and outside.
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Going Somewhere
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There’s no one else on this road I’m on, and I like it that way.
It smells slightly of roadkill, dust-devils and funnel clouds
and goes on as far as the eye can see.
Going somewhere.
There’s fields of borax and gravel fans
the tar is melting in the Sun. An earthquake put a kink in it
and a brushfire burned the dried stream bed.
A long road filled with mirages baking under the Sun.
The air smells like going somewhere.
Don’t know where I’ll end up
but the Sun is hot in the morning
and the air smells like
I want to go somewhere.
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The Sawblade
02:14
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I saw lightning clouds come down
and devastate the ground
saw the oceans drying up
and mountains wearing down
this was in a dream that woke me up
for it could be
saw the things that came
before and after you and me.
I didn’t mind.
I saw silver lightning bolts come down
and devastate the ground
saw the oceans drying up
and mountains wearing down
saw the baleful things
that celebrate when we are gone
then a frozen lifeless rock
the Sun will burn no more.
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Death Valley
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Long shadows reach through time eroding centuries seeping
wearing cliffs to bone following the faultline.
The Sun remembers a ritual.
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The Thirteenth Animal
03:32
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Golden eye-lights in a canyon of sage
and so I’ll stay here for I wanna change
see what comes to me or where I go
hearing a howl I’d like to know
Sun burning Earth black the sky is red
then I can see by a shower of fallen stars
at night my two green moons look at you
animal spirit of sky.
Shadow looked right on a canyon of sage
and so I’ll stay there for I wanna change
see what comes to me or where I go
coyote howl I’d like to know
Sun cracking burning hot sand and stone
then I can see by moon and stars
a tunnel of leaves is where I would live
kick up some dust roll on a snail.
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Precarious Glimmering
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A pearl grey precarious glimmering
awakening to find closeness of mysteries of life
planets rolling in wheels of light
ceaseless stirring of stars and dragons
curl in clouds of aurora.
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The Cemetery Trees
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Leaves follow me visiting columbariums
thinking about being inert as old wood.
Full moon starts to rise, trees emit vapors I breathe
then I enter into the dim and echoing marble halls
where candles aglow in stone recesses
calmly illuminate withered bouquets
“what was that soft hoot, or coo?”
Skeletons coming out of their tombs
with their arrows for me and ones I love
is this our end? Death?
Leaves follow me visiting columbariums
and turn to dust orange in the sunset
as the days surely shorten.
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14. |
Good Evening
01:22
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