1
2
Be still my
float-a-bout
soul
until the
hasting hurt greets daffo
days a-parts the
gold embroidered gorgeously
unstained
3
Breakers rave her
dis tresses
round
scattered ruins
ruined
sleight of banished
hand throwing hearts
the card... The knave
of darts... darts...
4
Carved in the heart
a rusting ring-
serpent split
eternity.
Your image turns to
arctic flakes
such craving
burnt the trusty tree.
5
Arctic wings bring
exquisite gloss.
Holy-l-ice
fast-gathering
phantoms
land
on hill
on brow
on temples
6
Peach-glad tree tips
night notes throated
steep
fleeting
continual
enwrap feet
with angel-high-wires
mandrake cumber
world
turn-turtle
7
Be still
unresting limbs
frantic as birdsong.
Come now shades
a-lingering sleep
wallowin
creature me.
No words to strangely
work the heart.
8
To bite this temperate fruit
sweet
sinned and purpled
with vigour.
Unmask the melody
locked and languishing
on the tip...
tongue the
soft-fell
passion.
9
Air this strain
mug
lemon heave of ebon
mammatocumulus
westwarding westward
refrain
unhallowed sky
forests foraging
doom
raddle the core
raddle
refrain
10
Take love easy
bid grow deep-feather-down.
Ocean rumours favour with a-flow
no sadness on me
weepingo.
In the land of strangers be
lost be lost
in me.
11
Setting bird
la-light on ultra
woodland
violets
fabulous
crystalline
lining
dimples weary
winter
captive wilt
not.
12
Deepest abyss.
A will-o'-the-wisp
rocks heavily my mind.
Sea-lured, river wracked.
Hovering night
drench calmly
the harm-quake
drench calmly the
quake.
GERALDINE MONK
