WAIT

WAIT

Wait
until your eyes adjust to the light
for adjust they will

look at this
what we have here

is it not
like a planet metaphor
with inner
meanings, outer rings

Saturn
     in her full regalia
nothing saturnine

until
   you get up as close
as we are now

and here you lock on
with all your technology
literal antennae

that hunger for resonance
that transcends species, outlived
race and colour

no idle promise
from some mad mystic or
their posterity text
that we
might become one
know ourselves
know each other

somewhere here
there is a beyond special
moment a forever now
searching for you
trying to find you

let
  that quest
to squeeze every bit of life
out of words and things,
out of
      oceans of language

run
   a blind course, suffer
in vain.

FROM THE MOMENT

FROM THE MOMENT

from the moment
Christopher set eyes
upon the New World
he was plagued.
by double vision

a world not
the world he had remembered
not the world he had anticpated
it shifted
    in and out of recognition

something so exceptional
about this place

whispering voice of
the Great Spirit, invincible towers,
        swathes of wheat

light and darkness, darkness
inside the
     light

suddenly Europe a land forgotten
the tired and huddled masses

Christopher scanning
the Eastern horizon

wondering,
          stocks and shares
permitting

how many leagues their
ships lag behind
   

TANTAMOUNT

TANTAMOUNT

I stumble
into the temple
past
the guards
and moneylenders
who appear
not to notice

my, how fruitful and prosperous
— a billion, trillion times fold

since
the time of Jesus

and there
in the inner sanctum
I behold a trinity
Pennywise, Baron
Harkonnen
and the hydra-
headed great
of Merkava

brooding on something
hatching their joint scheme

lucky, in fact,
our blessed fortune,
that all this
amounts to
all this
be tantamount to
is a
meaningless dream.

ABOUT

ABOUT

so South is heading North
turning
     things
around

the globe
in your bedroom
best turn it
upside down

South on
    the Equator

giving its all
     all that it takes

dreaming
        a new vision

no more
Northern mistakes

so
South
heading North

simple
replacement;
this what it about