vapour light

I
Say please
Don’t just yet say
Oh I’ll be gone
In a few days
So please let me
Please lets

Oh wait
Now ive forgotten what
I wanted to say
But don’t stop you
Continue and I’ll
Take only a few moments

But the clock
The clock
Ghost past death
How your hands
Hang at your sides
Weighed down and
Lifeless going away

II
This savage fiend
In one bound
Was across
The bush and
Battered my skull into
a chalky paste in red
before I knew it and
thank god I knew
the feeling one
has in love
having thus fallen
that the thrill the rush
the charging horses
all come home
in the loss of head
for beauty that
was never mine
and from which
there is no escape

III
I haven’t touched
Haven’t seen
Haven’t felt
For it will need
Flung over the horizon
first the bag
then the shoes
and lastly yourself
where the sea
meets the sky
is a wall
unto heaven
what I told them
back home I have
told myself
though it means
little to me
what wind
what vessel

IV
winding down
fall
an autumn day

barking dogs
in parking lots
knee-high breeches
must have got me
wrong to trickle down
that is to say
inundated and fading away

this afternoon
love can make
tomorrow we can
make love again