That fucking dense one

It's like retaliation,
It suits being rooted in the ground.
This lot of land was given water
Motes and speckles float
Falling here and now revolving.

In the heart of the ancient city
Only luminaries sit amongst stone
Their ganglion limbs wrap around
Their little inklings winking.
Growths and pores leak spores
And rush to flood the sun.

So small they live in all
So small they live in the air
Reflecting a fiery presence
By a thump and a rattle
in the deep den there.

Grey fields stand tall as shields
Tumbledown round huts emptied and
ripped apart like wet cardboard.
Under a slip of leathery mud and grit,
Hands turned crust black and meticulously scabbed
Held up like orants with the bone white moon
Pitted and stopped in orbit.

A City

A beaten brow

Raised atop a rooftop

Drums a slow decay

It softly slips away

And away

Insulting little feather downs

Plucked and brazen
From a trailing vine now

Caught by masters of war to pound

There are little hands

That touch the muted swan’s song

Three brass buttons slipping to shimmer

Too full to fly out

Seeping inside a silent cry

But hushed and keen and hollow

Where outside armouries are packed

Motes lift along a wet crackle

Little radio hath come to life

Turning past the point of static
Pushed by the wind

To tune in is not listening

Choose to move to the absolute

Tall reeds and glasses raised

belie a lotus flower

its roots plunge turning low

and if unless it is let go

that is ever to be picked

and clinked again

then again risen

and to try not to again because

follow not I 

Where worthless folly

In striking at everything

creates nothing

but emptiness

What can be forgotten
Feels like losing touch
The shadows melt together
Our fingers have gently caressed
God's weathered face
He slaps it away.
What did you expect?
That's our lot.

The tip of this triangle

Folding forever

But to be settled
Where it started.

Roaring dust where it belongs

This battle lines the lungs

Grit falling in time with thy breast

To turn over again