Saturday 22 December 2007

synesthetic

our bridge is a colour I cannot pronounce
(not has, but is)
a shape, a melody
I long to hear out loud

but I am tongue-tied

not inevitably deaf by heart
but none the wiser for composing
a passage for this tune
while the map I thought we walked,
just falls apart

and we sing
oh how we sing
notebooks full of thread
where we knit our synesthetic jackets
in anonymity
and get to choose
where ever that is at

but then,

at every single cornerstone
I confoundingly realise, again
we're apparently hanging on
to both sides
of the same
transitional end


Sunday 9 December 2007

disentangle

how flat we lie
all tumbled down
wasted lines
from crown to grown

mischief
turning chaste
since war(ning) zone

grey colour times
fading from waiting
to hide

I quietly portray

this tune!
is what we need
won't you come down
and play