Leave to remain

Streaked into the ether
a grain of sky
Blacker than a Diamond
Lining my stomach
Like extinctions
Like a puncture
Freedom comes in a frozen blurt
Tell your mother
Where it hurts
Kiss you better
With broken lips
Lick your salt and bathe your gaze
In a kick of glitzch
In a crystal maze
This photograph was taken by the side of a river 
(in novo-next-to-nowhere)
I really believe that if you hadn't been there
If you hadn't shown
If it wasn't seen
Like the river itself
Reflecting
The maelstorm of clouds
(I made that word up)
Please don't correct it
If you hadn't shown
What your hair stood up to
I'd never have felt
This shadow walk through me
Like a visual chord
Breaking my bad
Like a lyrical sword
Piercing my diffidence
And making me think that I'd love to be sane
To connect all these latencies
With a ripple of wonder
Put an end to the game
Give leave to remain.
I wish I could be here
By this torpid river of mud and lace
I wish I could cry
For a thousand days..


22 - 29th of June, 2016 


photograph: Ilaria Kanto - iphone, no filters