we
lay like lushingtons
beneath rubys crown of splinters
& roses from summer slumber
turned her lips to frozen winters
the
summer & its rain
combined her cool choices
& sang sweet sad disdain
on
the earths breath & voices
despite the fire & the air
her
body holds only water
we are landmass lost in mist
with autumns only daughter
the white peaks of winter
mock summers muggy troughs
one is in the others hand
promising
spring & loss
in the day & the night
the wonderminds call it out
louder than the fifth angel
in
the sunshine & the dark
~
theres burning & a glow
the
fickle flicker of flame
theres two faces on fire
ruby ashes is her name
the
only difference
between
the love & the pain
is
one is the other
& the other is the same
in the
first taste & the last
bump bump hearts beat the same
mouths
dry with nervous ashes
as our
wonderminds go insane
the
only difference
between
her land & our sea
is our
air & her water
are
where each other should be
our
handling of the meat
& our touching of the soul
will live
forever together
if ruby ashes forgets her role
~
the
only difference
between
our love & our pain
is
it hurts to be in love
& love loves to breed in pain
the last stab & first loss
bump bump hearts still pump the same
tears wet on rubys lashes
yes our
wonderminds gone insane
ruby
claims perfection
so we
prove her perversion
& if we knew her soul & shoes
we would treat her with aversion
slowed & agitated
needing ruby to come to us
& with doubt but in memory
ruby
comes without much fuss
she invades to surrender
red carpet of red ashes
a surprise
night for our shoes
before
bloody dawn crashes
~
close rubys heavy calm
is an
eye away like anger
seems
to be soothing our pain
but she
moves like stranger
the
wonderminds are looming
over ruby whos believing
in myxomatosis & acid rain
& the lives no ones leading
unaware
of our power
smiles sabotage success
its mean & its tolerant
to dance with worry in our breast
so the blood & the sun
ruby ashes tastes them both
we stumble & fall on feet of brass
fathers undead son is the heavenly ghost
sounding to the depths of hell
rubys
music rises to deaf gods
mans
neat & portable ideas
are written
with flame in the floods
~
ruby ashes has the keys
to
both our life & our death
'i am the first & the last'
ruby ashes smiling said
ruby
is the people
& her wisdom dies with her
upright
man laughs in scorn
at the
east wind blows inside her
ruby ashes gone now
& we take a long lone walk
down
the empty corridor
time
used to fill with talk
the
skirting & a plug
mock
wonderminds from below
for ruby has gone out now
leaving
us stranger & low
pressure
of modern life
& the
fiction of abstention
is power
to rubys teaching
then theres the bromide connection
~
& demon bromide comes
angry when we drink the coin
our
laughter & our screaming
demon bromide binds into one
& if she takes our arm
her
fingers sound the alarm
because
ours is the danger
& ruby has bromide calm
& her hands & her hair
tangle up wonderminds in fear
for ruby is with bromide
& they know that we are here
& monsters from the sea
count
their horns in disbelief
take bromide to the blue depths
leaving ruby free to speak
but wonderminds
are insane
rubys lost the angles
& touches our naked brains instead
with cancer & sweet angels
photo Tech & Trees #4 from the Dagenham Archive
