milky way

a stony path into the blue room. “Weep and wail” to quote St. James 

 

merely a corner of the world with no red chairs

 

bending slightly in the right knee to give a shape to the heat

  

forgot to lose my head among the thistles and windless Fridays

  

one ear for Josquin’s In Te Domine Speravi and one for housing the rain

  

in its corner the shadow hardly registers on the introspectrometer

 

if by touch you moved the North to the South and tipped over a cricket