(no subject)
Helios upon Hedera Helix
Into the evening the afternoon fled,
Shooting ghosts like sparks
From a carriage-wheel Earth.
'Do you have a window?'
Yes, I think I do.
Because I remember looking into a sky,
Or something from which a galaxy grew.
And below it there was a tree
Cast like a net to catch the birds that blew.
And around a hill stood Helios' inverted smirk:
A rainbow bent about a leech
Who in turn slept bent inside the back
Of a crab he'd killed upon the beach.
But this was no concern of mine,
It was the Land Beyond the Sill
Inside my failed hopes
Clung like plastic ivy
To the walls.
Possibilities burned and boiled
And billowed like smoke from a
Chimney of lonely meat.
Disturbance!
Ah! The window was open.
Too late.
Into my room the citybreath sailed,
And on the mast was written:
With a bleeding set of gums,
Something filthy this way comes.
Into the evening the afternoon fled,
Shooting ghosts like sparks
From a carriage-wheel Earth.
'Do you have a window?'
Yes, I think I do.
Because I remember looking into a sky,
Or something from which a galaxy grew.
And below it there was a tree
Cast like a net to catch the birds that blew.
And around a hill stood Helios' inverted smirk:
A rainbow bent about a leech
Who in turn slept bent inside the back
Of a crab he'd killed upon the beach.
But this was no concern of mine,
It was the Land Beyond the Sill
Inside my failed hopes
Clung like plastic ivy
To the walls.
Possibilities burned and boiled
And billowed like smoke from a
Chimney of lonely meat.
Disturbance!
Ah! The window was open.
Too late.
Into my room the citybreath sailed,
And on the mast was written:
With a bleeding set of gums,
Something filthy this way comes.