1. |
Friend
06:00
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assisting my hairline in retreat
i pluck and feed
strands to the street
the worlds a cauldron
im spelled and spell in
and toss some hair among
to blend and bond
mingle with moss and silt
gel with the gels and milk
move like a nutrient
a spied on photon
a payment sent
becoming tightly wound
to every texture and sound
and balm and bomb
til im inseparable from
four small hands hovering above
everything they cannot touch
but did and do
what to do now you’re due
pain is love tattooed across
some commuters back
the clauses seem back to front
but by their terms
im deeply in love
tunnel of bougainvillea
on the corner you live
hacked to bits
during new landlords visit
now the tunnels gone
can’t duck under shade
or thanks the kindness paid
by what makes a body change shape
desires decisively rearranged
by relations we strain to gauge
the lives i love
the grief i gave
lockstep begins to syncopate
moved by the caucus of gestures unsent
yes i wake in the morning and i miss my friend
the neighbouring air and the absence we tend
yes i wake in the morning and i miss my friend
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2. |
Last Rot
09:19
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and i found a wing
torn neatly from its hinge
perfect red dot where the ligament popped
and the middle dipped in
like shallow porcelain
and further along
i found the other one
half expected to discover
spaced equal distances from each other
the remainder
of the bird
first the tail snipped and splayed
the belly waiting on the legs
the head in cartoon death
dry tongue lolling to the left
i’d pick the whole thing up
try to reconstruct
the legs pop in the slot
as if the slots the hot spot
to resume staccato strut
the head playing catch up
now i’m somewhere else
i’m somewhere else
i
a ringneck flashes its span
across the windscreen
scoops upwards as we roar
into the space it just vacated
second before
risky performer
and later I’m rolling dough
so thin it turns to holes
fold the whole things on itself
and knead it back to health
as if to show
another approach
i heard it on the walk
before i fought the torpor
and i sat on a rock
as if the rock was a cot
where i could sleep it off
the last rot
yeah
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3. |
Launch Plumes
08:38
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he spins resin at the alley
joysticks drones after dark
while I’m catching mist from the irrigation
mimicking the arc
of missiles and explorations
that punch holes into the sea
or keep another hemisphere burning
or grant good grace to property
greening the running track
next to the pizza shop I live by
in the morning it’ll be deserted
but I’ve been walking here at night
past the families on the pavement
and the worker’s traffic lights
I’ve been listening to music
I’ve been directing how I see
with playlists and weed
until the confettied safety glass seems sweet
I know he’s pulverising
someone in a nation far away
to keep the surplus churning
to keep the rental pay
in the morning I’ll be sleeping
in sheets
when I wake up I’ll peel back
my sheets
I see weapons in the sprinklers
trace a different kind of blast
water curtains melting lights from laptops
bluing bedrooms in the dark
until I can’t feel the world beyond me
mesmerised only by the curve
like when we were adjacent in the alley
watched him twist the ball to make it swerve
spinning late into the pins
another strike on a strike streak
I forgot about our combat
complimented his technique
forgot about his fingertips
20kms east
typing out coordinates
stroking other skies with strike streaks
while I’m walking by the pizza shop
coaching my impressions of the street
and the ground that’s
beneath me
is soft with the water that keeps it green
and the world caught
in waxy orbs
through a curtain of water the council pours
over a public park
in a launch plume’s arc
i thought if i loved it I could curb my part
see the man that
bowls beautifully
his violence is official I do mine for free
in the morning
when I hang up to dry
the sheets that I slept in during the night
when I prepare
the drink I like
and drink it with food in late morning light
when I’m in love
and when the love is left
when I bring in the bins when I host a guest
when I’m walking
out my door
and I see a bird I’ve never seen before
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