Showing posts with label diesel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diesel. Show all posts

Monday, 14 June 2021

MEMORY 101

 



the after-rain fug punch 
  
hot cooking kitchen metal

mid-morning diesel exhaust 
  
the melt burner of cookie wax
  
late afternoon pavement 
    pushing summer heat 

a cigarette on the wind

memory 101

journey
up
the
smells

down in the winds








Tuesday, 29 January 2019

2018 OFFCUT POPS 3





NO CHOICES

hes gone

where they all go

when they go

see you there

why not
    why not 
        why not ?



SMELLS ME DIESEL

the
cat
manages to make
a
noise just like
hydraulic brakes

& my memory
smells me diesel
in overseas snow

till he farts
like an arsehole

blocked drain now
after heavy rain

& pa gets out
the dyno rods again



ENGLISH CAFE BLUES

in
the
cafe

queues
just
me

its english theyre speaking
but its not english i hear

he NEEDS coffee
they say
they laugh

i am a thousand miles away

my mind made
of cushions

& unable to explain

~

i sit-

well its a controlled collapse

& the view is exactly arse height 

&
i
wonder
what
regular secrets
all those under-grundies
have
seen

its a grundy parade
by the calendar stand

& i write it down

now this english im writing
is english i understand

a grundy parade
& mr calendar man

it makes sense on paper
if anywhere can





Day By Day Calendar Kiosk | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

from flickr.com

Monday, 10 December 2018

RUSSIA CALLING




i want
to breath
that blank
russian air again

want to dwarf myself
in eternal foyers
too brown
to echo

want to smell the diesel
melt the snow
in
the
imposition streets

want to see 
the grey domino
city scrape
thru
the
bad glass 
twentieth floor 
windows

over a river
gone solid
where no one skates

and count those copper tubes again
in
the
airport
as
i
leave again

but that was gorbys days

and i was western air

supervised around
that
strange flipside
of
cold war freeze

russias calling-

its price chalked
on the soles
of its awkward
evening shoes




Omsk

from russia.countrypictures.in