DID
cannot
undo
what
we did
apply
a stitch
in time
retro-
spectively
tried to unpick
those stitches
the blood
just gushed
around
the scar
a wound to carry
rest of my
life I guess
slowly everything sinking
to resr
DID
cannot
undo
what
we did
apply
a stitch
in time
retro-
spectively
tried to unpick
those stitches
the blood
just gushed
around
the scar
a wound to carry
rest of my
life I guess
slowly everything sinking
to resr

PLACE
yout touch
indelible
your fingers
going right through
my skin
into my brain
smoothing everything
everything
until the
stars came
shooting, falling,
shooting, falling
their heat and light
bathing us both

finding
every place
FIXING
“where I’m wrong, I’m right”
The Beatles: Fixing a Hole
let’s
see what
we got here
check if
there is a hole
if so
how to
fix it
if not
why not?
poem need
the right kind of holes
(where would
we be
without holes)
just jokin’
poem got to be
fun
poem got
to be serious
we had some
fun so
let’s go
serious
switch of a sudden
turn on dime
between
fun and serious
truth to power: break
in through the back
leave via
the front
do your dreadlock goldilock
thing
have your Gulliver
child’s play
turn it
all
upside
down
seems like you serious
but
can we be
sure to
be sure
that last line
gleams wickedly, such
a look in your eye
and eye need
the light
how else
delight?
bend those bars in
before out
your light coming in
your light
going out
see here: a VOICE
in with
a shout
A WORD
let me have a word
let me fill
you in
from a poetry
am going to need
twenty, maybe
thirty
thousand
characters already
oops1 sorry,
my apology
did I say
“characters”?
that was a bit
of a fatal Freudian slip
I meant to say “words”;
no sorry: lines
no I am completely wrong
in the wrong
to do this justice
I need to write
the final
death count
as poems
WEAVER BIRD
always on the farm:
flash of bright yellow
across my
line of sight
furiously at work
building their nests
chirpy
masters of
twig engineering
brandishing their
golden purpose
meanwhile, since we
are on the subject of
nest-building
and things
with wings
let us observe old Nick
leaving his helo
having just be ferried
from quite distant shore
to Mediterranean ship
pausing a moment to
stroke brash steel,
sculpted aluminum
of the true
spirituality of the war machine
lover
extraordinaire
paramour to the extreme
blowing kisses to his image
where
reflected in such surfaces
every drop of bloodlust
contained in booklet form
in jacket
inner pocket
there
blueprint
of a world gone skew
slavery redeemed
refreshed anew
Sun
itself
blind to the glaring ironies
so much
to fix with
all this weaving
.
GHOST STORY
a perfect storm
winds from the East
winds from the South
converge
tearing through the streets
making a nonsense of your hopes
of a full
Mediterranean side-
walk café life
sipping a latte, sitting in the Sun
reading Proust or Sartre
nothing in those books
talk about
how the ghosts, the sins,
have caught
up
with you
(at least none
that you do read
none that you can see)
LIKE A
was
light years ahead
and now
I am dead
soul free to roam
in that dark space
ghost
music only
ghost poetry
voices, songs
Ginsberg, McGough, Henri,
Patten,
Ferlinghetti, Corso,
the Beatles,
Hendrix, Cream
and the Rolling Stones
SCRABBLE DABBLE
my brain
is a scrabble set
juggle roles, identities
am after a triple word score
tire
tier
year of the tiger
hit something
good on that
abacus and so
masc and fem mars
and venussing together
dance
of conjunction
in alignment
about to go full
elastic band
slingshot projection
time gravity bending me
to their will
true trajectory
whispering your name
SHUFFLE
poem
could love
but poem
is scar tissue
contagious
in the extreme
it shuffles up
brushes against me
ruffles reality
pretends to a
slick wisdom
passes on things
you would not believe
except
you are a reader
and so you do
MERELY
chill!
it’s just
a poem
will go
the way of all things
not as if
in this or other simulation
you are playing white
against a dozen black mambas
or
at thirty seconds
trying to out-think, out-run
scorpions galore
outpoint everything that
threatens to make a meal of you
get out of jail
stairway yourself to
Heaven free
over the chaos of life
exercise
sole monopoly
so
chill!
just chill!
it’s just a poem, merely,
will get recycled
we all
get recycled
is the very nature
of the game