15 december

who even knows anything the denizens of the deep creep merrily along as the songs turn off key / lazily the marigolds unfold their alarm clocks - talking of michaelangelo and the peaches they dare not reach as the overexposed danger zones swerve though highbrow overblown pancake makeup - let us not assume these things - let us all make short, swift swings and laundry basket nanny goats - the boats, i meant, the rushes and reeds - the stories of times of far-off deeds - the mythology so many believe is true - the answers and questions from me to you - the building we're building and bricks too thick - the sticks too heavy, the straw too thin - the three little pigs and the wolf calling bluff: these are the answers, never too tough : the lights came on in a far-off field, and the camel that showed up was kinder than necessary - a topiary garden, a dromedary hardened by winter and the splinters of warmth spit out by a fire built for s'mores - no norms in that scene, spun out from the dought of a thousand light bulbs in a snow-free carnival - fall and spring and in between : father frost and the cocoa queens