January Fragments

January

Bleak month

Why do you torment the year

With your narrow thoughts

You are alone as few follow you

January (Veils)

You have never removed your final veil

As your sisters have

I know what lies beneath your modesty

It is not a mystery

Even the most rigid of months

Desires my moist touch

Remove your veil

And adopt repose

January (White Angels)

Are the white streetlights on this lonely road

The frozen angels of God

I have never considered this before

Whilst driving

 

Inside I am Dancing

Inside I am dancing

But only you can see my rapid shadows

On the hollow stage

 

An Understanding of Time

An Understanding of Time was watching the electric trains

As they passed his bedroom window

He had designed the pantographs

And was interested in their performance

His wife was named Vector

She had little or no interest in the concepts of time

As she slept quietly in their marital bed

 

Summerbird

Each morning I search the skies

Hoping that I might witness your return

But you are far away

Celebrating the polarity of the white sun

 

Hannah Thursday

I have sent six gentlemen to assassinate my queen

This is now the end of my beginning

Hannah Thursday said to her fellow passengers on the train

She knew that hounds were waiting for her at every station

But chose not to look at them as she passed by

Fires Were Started 

Fires were started

I could see them burning fiercely

In the decaying mist

Morning was only hours away

And I knew that these fires

Would burn without inhibition

Deep into the following day

I had to make haste and warn my magical friends

 

The Grey Moon

Havel the poet has returned from the mountains

He told me that the moon was grey

Although I believed him

(there was no reason not to)

I felt that I needed to know more

So I left my home in the valley

And began to walk towards the mountains

Oh Superman

Please do not open your eyes

As I do not want to shame

Your tormented gaze

 

The Poetry Field

I have not seen you for months

As the darkness shields our engagement

But your warm hand caresses me

As I search for you

 

 

2018