Only let things be
I could not find the words I saw
Threaded ‘cross the bare floor
Nothing makes it easier
Not the doors or the walls

Only let things be
Nothing easy nothing free

Drowning down the threads for it
For a piece of closure
One day I found sleeping lions
And had to get off the phone

Only at your request
Nothing easy nothing left

If I could lose this now
I doubt I’d choose to anyhow
My ghost walks through two houses
And can’t be seen in either
Only heard sometime
Nothing passing out of mind

Flickering and fading
It can talk
Though it is
It can talk
Quiet I
Guess I know
All of it
Open handed

You did it
Belly up
White and dead
All of it
With my things
In my place
All of it

Flickering and fading
That’s the way it’s going
By the way it’s going Over and over my gone lover
Unhand me
I’m the same
I’m the turf
You’re the feet
You wipe it
Off the street
Onto me

Lean by this
For it is
Lost in it
What am I
If not ground
For your knees
And your bones

Flickering and fading
That’s the way it’s going
By the way it’s going
Over and over my gone lover

Apart
Attachment hung a long drawn sick song one in a thousand miles apart from anything or one and sung it’s morning song into view like eyes on sticks like scanning tubes long fragile optics I turn pale to see you squint the other end as

We stand here blank as two blank walls where there’s only blank walls

Nothing much in rebirth not a cloud to wash the sick repetition down the drainpipe or at least to wet the tiles

I long to leave this pink husk that flickers among the grasses

I lean my head on an interior wall barely stop short of crossing my skull against yours in the interest of caving them inside only for the scare of being sometime talked about

I pasted eyes on a face over opening space so long to shout her

Is this how you imagined life no but I never imagined it any other way either

The cars and the storm
Building castles
Footsteps ‘cross the beautiful ground
I make signals
Wishes on uneven ground
Places first as
Ever it’s a beautiful day

Walk to your door
By the way
Past the cars
All through a breeze
I can freeze
When I look

We hold hands and
Turn blue in a minute or two
My palms are wrong
All along on a body like yours
Less than ever
Never will it lead me home

Walk from your door
Through the way
Under cars
All past the storm
I have worn
Since I heard

Lose
Some
I
Say

Like it matters
Scattered ‘cross a field in some way
Hurt and shattered
Afloat by a fluke of science
By the water
I saw her and drifted away

Walk from your door
Into space
I fill with
Nothing at all
But the cars
And the storm

Rest your arms
You can give your arms a rest
There’s nothing worth taking the risk

Well I suppose that we’re in the void part cooked microwave three minutes flip me on my back and serve me up and show me infinity with running water walk up river trousers rolled up to your knees. Well I guess that I’ll meet you there you can wear your hair like you did round here let me know you’re there. I can see a sun in everyone and your black hole soul I revolve around you are my world I’m your satellite.

I know your arms are aching from holding things inside.

Well I guess something’s got to give something’s gotta snap something must be frayed ’cause it’s all in lines and it’s all in grids there’s codes in sounds there are codes in lines if we all lay down we can see it all from the ground

I know your arms are shaking from holding up the sky

Well you can give your arms a rest there’s nothing worth taking the risk there’s nothing down here but the mess that we will leave when we see the sky touching the earth touching the stone touching my love

You know my arms are aching to be wrapped around your spine

Roadkill moon
And people what y’
Still living here for another
Boat that we jumped for
Another evenin’ swimming for

The shore, the birds and roadkill moon
It’s a ugly place you brought me to
I say

And so you stand list
Less inside your skin princess
The skin that will thin
And they will bury you in
Listless as the walls and
Blank as a thousand eyeballs

And pale as the roadkill moon and
Water could not behave on you
for long

Hidden long in with
These four blank walls it is simple
As pale as skin and
As pale as moon I listen
My small love looms stood
Howling at the roadkill moon

Under which I’ll marry you oh
Under which I will consume
The forest in flame and fume I
Do assume you’ll be there too
And honey this is all for you oh
Honey this is all for you

Lost and you
Don’t don’t now walk away
It’s fair nothing this way
You you don’t care about

Oh my my insecure things
Know no what song you sing
I am lost lost and you

So what’s it going to be?
I guess you ought to feel
Feeling how you feel for it

You’ve fallen from your perch
Sing sing and sing unheard
Clouded and comatose

Do you really have
All that you want
Looking for something
You haven’t got
You be blown away
Way by yourself

One good thing I say
Nothing’s gonna drive
The weight from off my chest
Or in fact to release
This pressure from my head
These piss-holes in the snow
Could barely see you go
And I want you to know
You are not the only soul
Who hurts like you do now
In case you did not know
There are two of us you know
And I am not immune
I am losing it too
You wont let me talk to you
I cannot close the book
Or even find my page
I lose you every day
I cannot stand the hate
I feel you project
Along the motorway
I understand your pain
But can’t figure out why
For all the pain you feel
It was you who said goodbye
For everything we had
The future is blank now
And even as I write
My hands begin to itch
My skin feels sick and cold
My heart thrown out on stone
And kicked into a ditch
But this much that I know
Is one good thing I say
That you can take away
For all this time I did
Not deserve you anyway

Venus in the evening I have disappeared again
Venus in the evening
I have disappeared again
All that I knew is
Meaningless

Except a black hole song

Nullity you are the
One thing we
Sing to and on and on
Into oblivion

Leave no trace no more

Morning came and passed away then
morning came again

She coasts through life
Doing things people do
And I wonder where
She gets her energy

Leave no trace no more

Morning came and passed away then
morning came again

A long retreat
So long to be here
Only to see it a while and be
Counting the leaves here
Frozen in summer and blackened to be
Drawing a line around it in the wind

I touched the ground there
Folded and settled into the hill
She coughed without thinking
Tangled a line around something to be
I hope that I see it before it sees me

If you don’t know what to see
How are you supposed to look into any
Thing or all of it now
Now that it’s too long
And gone

The water made it
Wandering and difficult to breathe
It goes without saying
Sometimes it’s better to say it in case
The words I were thinking weren’t mine in the least

The sun don’t come here
Over the dark side of the ground
And all of our flowers
Are eaten by slugs if they manage to stand
Up to the dark that it all covered and

If you don’t know what to see
How are you supposed to make a safe retreat?
Follow the water upstream
Knowing it’s too long
And gone

One piece
This is the car I took
All the way from there to here
Past the clouds and signs by roads
It didn’t really hurt once to

Really think about it I
Guess though I don’t remember
Thinking about it until later I guess

I guess it got me there in one
Piece though I would say I was
In pieces you would not say
A thing after that now I

Really think about it I
Guess though I don’t remember
Thinking about it until later I guess

Now it’s all a little blurred
And convenient I guess
To unremember the facts
Nothing is that simple to

Really think about it I
Guess though I don’t remember
Thinking about it until later I guess