Once In The Bushes

 

Love has boundaries

 

which are temptingly immense.

 

You can’t go wrong.

There is a problem

with the arms that catch your

                                    fall,

all this tirelessness

you have yet to exhaust

 

and will not hear of destroying.

 

 

* * * *

 

Narcissus Eats With The Fishes

 

 

I should not mix with

              cocaine.

The unthinking man's

              defibrillator

 

it parries calm

and

 

I am rendered as

one foot in the grave

 

jumping on the spot

 

crawling with feedback

caked in Achtung

 

- - - -

 

AUX4/AUX5

 

The heart is time's ox

 

making you a consort

 

meaning that you are here.

 

It racks up life

and

the causes of hooves.

 

 

* * * *

 

A Cultured Left Foot

 

The dead call collect.

You are running with the brake-lights.

I am not all here once more.

 

You guessed five grand on tick

would smooth out love’s feathers

over the course of one spring.

 

Are you dancing yet? No-one can tell.

 

Angels make you antsy.

You tramp across their wingspans

throwing

                          caution open

composing exit-wounds again.