Pause off the skyline

blushing cerebellum,
do your midnight crash…
sink your teeth into envy
and slither back to the sun

in your ruins where blossoms
douse the calm-water festival
troupes of quill-poppers lie
stacked up like shelves
craning their wrecks to your
afternoon ambience
ploughed with the last stray mushroom

flagging down ships with your hand grips
calm-ocean colour on your
curdling way

land of the sloping toil
land of the milk thistles, sleeping...
canals go clear off steam
chartered by compass nails,
companions in entrails
on the windowsill with god

cruising in the bleach of
your liquid breath
cloaked in equilibrium slurs
i only wish the pain you flew
lay spread over walls
trampled  by your
very eschews

if panorama and winter
could see us all now
knee deep in our happening hollows,
spluttering a sort of
camomile midas...

ideas came flashing fast in the
picturesque days
tapestries hung like a delivery from
my thoughtlessness
watersheds turned
into wine

mesmerising is the idiocy
the clambering climb
the half-clasped reproach
to life slain sideways
iridescent fields
coil around the barley
months of mud
dribble and declaim

gone guttural
and surreal,
a dice roll cubed--
the fervour of an eyeball
numbered with fix

gone rolling and
shuddering
on the crest of a slideshow

so its settled then, it is...

the stomach-world
stays buoyant in a symphony
of dregs

your ashes marooned on
a stethoscope