grass and magnets

You keep my mind in glad infernity
You keep my head at hand
You keep my heart in mannequin gestures
Floating like an empty hope

Your softness is an indelible field
Of grass and magnets
Your shimmering complexity pures the stream

Your distance hurts me like an anchor
Tearing ancient coral from her wedding bed
Whilst the ship the ship ahoy you’re tightly tied to
All complete with Charlie’s albatross
Sadly seems so Tempest toss’d
(Those are crabs that wear his eyes)

You keep those memories
(what got froze in the cryogenic blackout shed)
Alight and warm and madly yearning
Climbing like a lightning spider
Threading yarns of window frost
Hot-hot breathed upon
Then lost and gone for too much burning
Seeming like the sudden scent of put out candles lit
For a fly boy buzzing heaven
Silver licking at his wings
Constraint and mercy showing themselves
In the showstoppers awe at modesty’s gaze
Conferring innocence upon him
As though she were giving sight to the blind
Empathing him with angels
Craving benediction for his dissolution
And momentary relief from the bondage of self
Which gives him a glimpse as he takes his pew
Of the never, of the was not
Of the knew

What is love the indivisible?

What is happiness go ask ‘Sir’
Lyrical beauty irritates the miserable
But why do cats recline and purr?

Our little time in space is borrowed

Nothing can come of nothing I fear
Beyond the sense of gone tomorrow
‘The old hath suffered the most’
And nothing will come says King Lear
Howl howl howling for Cordelia
in racking wind and slashing rain
Again again again again.