MID-CENTURY TEAK TODAY

 

time has its feet up 

on the mid-century teak

all waiting chores

& delayed communiques 

treatment resistant dandruff

knows how i feel today

NEW WAVE DAPPLE

not so much
rebuilding
out the wreck of it

as rewilding
the fallowed land
left

nude
after
the
wet kingdom fell

& waiting & hunting 

for the zing & smash
of a skew-whiff angles

unusual bond of light

in the new wave

dapple afternoon

SPEAKERS BLIM

never
knowing
how long it will take
for my mind to get 

online 

again

i wait wait wait
in the sunday morning of it all

coffee & a folded cat

1993 out the speakers blim

IN ITS BUDDHIST GAZE

& this little house
sat on its estuary clay

it almost has a face
if i would turn
swift enough to see

see its calm look

of time & bricks

see the stoicism

in its buddhist gaze

see all its needs

that can wait

its says

dont worry 

HOPE ON ICE

the sadness

is under the ice

i keep the hope on

as i play 

wait & see

in the mad dancing shadow

of the proverbial pan

WEARING COPPER JACKETS

the drs surgery
on-hold music
triggers a heavy sadness

&
all
the
other many morning times
i had to call & wait
rattle off
from out me
into 

the telephone firmament

wearing copper jackets
in the bumpstock milieu
&
waving their sad flags of sickness

SEASONS POP-FRAG

waiting for spring

so i can wait

for autumn again

ALMOST A MILLION OF US

at any one time
almost a million of us 
are 
   
    in 

 the  sky

~

fast chairs 
chopped tv
canned air
dollhouse booze

( airforce oxygen
        &
  industrial bombs )

drugged
from
tension
& 
opiated hardsell wait

~

airport atmosphere
discombobulated
streetside habits

till the gut-rush take off
of consensus equations

~

its
a 
strange pause

a nowhere white-hum shudder 

not escape - an absence

no heaven
off the
starboard bow

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