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Tuesday 16 August 2016

Ice and light


Trying to skate
Through this year
Of loss without
The ice creeping up
My ankles

Without
My skates
Drinking through to the
Water underneath

The water is thirsty for me
But I fell in love
Unexpectedly
With the sun

Now I am in a race
In a balancing act

In a beautiful
Coital
Coil
With light and ice

Breath is
Warmth and death

Cold is burning
Dread and laughing
Safety, a hope

That hops out ahead of me
Teasing me into following
The lines of my skates

Inscribing love poems
To the sun
To the skin of winter
To the death that came, the one what will not come

The ones I hold in holes in my teeth
Crying with my mouths closed
To keep them close

Sunday 14 August 2016

all in the same second

my heart is being burrowed
open
by earthworms and skyfish

lightening in summer
warm wormholes in winter

all in the same second

i want to kiss you
i want to drown

i grow like
moss with a bad sense of direction

i love
like a broken compass

love me like
earthworms
loving the rain
by instinct

by necessity

when we know hope is
cruel
and happy is false

we grow determined

feet planted strong as
river current

as gentle as
nothing gentle at all

all in the same second