what exterior to the moment
can be established, against
waves restless forms’
slide & arc
scripts in the bay’s
foreground: as double
shot espresso floods attention, as
the window-polarised hill
seems to tighten: to describe
a bladed edge
unsuitable for walking (let alone
in this heat), that ridge
of immediate experience, sharp
smiled as some terrain still within readable
detail, skin’s
paper-thin layers, days
mostly illegible or fixed too
close to see a picture. the light
, glassily invisible, does not burn away
this image, as it strikes
the blinding crystal of the land, as the fires’
rage burns out
of eyeshot, sky layered with haze,
films in milk-hot wind.
inside the museum, the cool of leaden
shadows are a cleaner
rain, a silence, dropping heavy
leaves, as your hands’ fine-boned
can be established, against
waves restless forms’
slide & arc
scripts in the bay’s
foreground: as double
shot espresso floods attention, as
the window-polarised hill
seems to tighten: to describe
a bladed edge
unsuitable for walking (let alone
in this heat), that ridge
of immediate experience, sharp
smiled as some terrain still within readable
detail, skin’s
paper-thin layers, days
mostly illegible or fixed too
close to see a picture. the light
, glassily invisible, does not burn away
this image, as it strikes
the blinding crystal of the land, as the fires’
rage burns out
of eyeshot, sky layered with haze,
films in milk-hot wind.
inside the museum, the cool of leaden
shadows are a cleaner
rain, a silence, dropping heavy
leaves, as your hands’ fine-boned
hold let fall cigarette
ash, gesture wordless as
a weightless note sustained
before lowering to near-
inaudible when leaving, as the raven’s
guttural dawn caw trembling, itself
strung in the throat
as a way of placing, one
more bead along the abacus
of breathing.
ash, gesture wordless as
a weightless note sustained
before lowering to near-
inaudible when leaving, as the raven’s
guttural dawn caw trembling, itself
strung in the throat
as a way of placing, one
more bead along the abacus
of breathing.