31.8.14

this bleak



is when eyes criss-cross the stars 
rather heart.

golden lamb breathe, the image 
i sieve that midas linger, that 
brood of his, that thistle on the dams edge
it spoke of this 

needling at her legs like the words 
fell from his tongue and crawled over
stone, i think i saw her  
over by the bridge
a gate by it. 

i went to speak, to say hello, 
nothing brash

the sky was closing over me, and 
a flood of crows swept my vision

to see rabbit to see hawk
and the idle crunch

as i lay myself before a gate
maybe the wind will shift it, 

maybe tomorrow when the birds 
are still, or the field is cut to pieces.

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