justwrite 27 april

when you have time may I print three pages these words age upon my tongue hung out to dry to fry in the hot wind of my mind finding a dry time ahead instead of the great wet outside we have tried our best to crest these waves we have saved all our string to bring together a rope also to save up hope and to cope with imagined situations this is a nation we are saving in our own heads and instead of lessons we are teaching suggestions and openness to hope again with the rope again but only because it rhymes this time we have crimes to consider to shiver in anticipation of the gloves come off and the discreet cough is swallowed by the black deep the restful sleep interrupted by the draft there was a raft I was building but I left it in a drawer that went missing and I’m kissing the strong on my finger to try to remember but once again forever is shorter than imagined a tragedy of its own design to seek and to find to speak and to spell and it’s just as well we haven’t made it to the bridge where the guitar and the graduation meet the sunrise with notquite surprise and wide sleepy eyes the chords hoarded in thrift stores coming true in shades unexpected but nonetheless collected patiently patently lined next to leather shoes and to choose is to find time to seek is to create when the space chases place and the echoes depart hardening hearts against ache and baking something different a sudden cloud and also the thunder hungered for when the storms have so long been silent the wet remnants of sadness or perhaps a plea for the plight of potted plants to dance in a drenched tent wherefore the hiding is deciding itself out of style and the miles to go before sleep are rearranged in strange patterns we are scattering our own ashes in unknown landscapes we are faking our escapes and looking for tickets made of sticky finger lingering longer than ideas we are not clear we do not fear there are apples and also radishes and the vanishing freight darkparked at the horizon surprises itself into sinking into unsung mountains