SYLVIA 2026

SYLVIA 2026

Sylvia i would take blackberrying again
out amongst
those luscious, vicious.
brambles one
last time

be like children
unrestrained. gorging
ourselves stained red
returning home
bloodied
    with load upon load
in plastic bags
telling ourselves
soon soon soon
we shall all be
in pie Heaven

it was a war
gathering them
but we
were unshakable

so having
fought a war
to capture this
wild treasure

let love
be the power
we next consider

so much we both
need to redeem there
we have
our mad symbols which
to some extent will
serve us, help
with the co-creation
of one common reality

much
lovemaking to learn
starting from
the ground up

with the care of watchmakers
dealing with a machine
of such sensitivity,
such intricacy

all those cogs and jewels
and tiny immaculate gears

watching your fingers
move through the thorns
is
    as if i were watching
the playing of
some strange, exotic
beautiful instrument

transcendental
as if composing 
writing the exact music
of this scene
for every berry
a sublime note.