Dear Catherine
Having a wonderful time
skids from its groove at the scratch of the pen.
You are as close as ink to paper
in this beautiful place.
But the envelope gapes
deep as the shock of space between, where
Oak trees spring up like rapeseed here,
thrusting through time. What is
so urgent about the future?
Kauris, on the other hand, are slow:
claws fast in the shiftless earth, the past
still raw as a leaf not moulded yet root-deep for
a millenium hardly sees them draw breath.
‘Home’ is a wooden cotyledon sprouting
decks which creep towards the promised
Sunlight is so strong
it sears the eyeballs, lazers
my slow thoughts which wander loose and unwary, like
many small animals prefer the dark.
You will be sleeping now in that curved night
which tips me out to face today’s bald
Wish you were here,
but we are broken apart as
an egg cracked on the harsh rim of sunrise.
Looking forward to seeing you,
backwards through earth’s concentric
shells of fragmented days skying
with love, Teresa.
skids from its groove at the scratch of the pen.
You are as close as ink to paper
in this beautiful place.
But the envelope gapes
deep as the shock of space between, where
Oak trees spring up like rapeseed here,
thrusting through time. What is
so urgent about the future?
Kauris, on the other hand, are slow:
claws fast in the shiftless earth, the past
still raw as a leaf not moulded yet root-deep for
a millenium hardly sees them draw breath.
‘Home’ is a wooden cotyledon sprouting
decks which creep towards the promised
Sunlight is so strong
it sears the eyeballs, lazers
my slow thoughts which wander loose and unwary, like
many small animals prefer the dark.
You will be sleeping now in that curved night
which tips me out to face today’s bald
Wish you were here,
but we are broken apart as
an egg cracked on the harsh rim of sunrise.
Looking forward to seeing you,
backwards through earth’s concentric
shells of fragmented days skying
with love, Teresa.
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