Big Top

Green - ten meters tall;

a Big Top inflates with breath

filling sacred space.

Story

A book’s a book,

where angels

tiptoe in between

twenty six letters

(already corrected)

laughing aloud at fixation.

After all the indignity

of editing by editors,

an inject squirts

a story out of no thing

and angels from a soulful place

dance – here and there – out among

the twenty six, flowing a

Technicolor  dream.

Catch

He does this thing, Andrew,

- statistically different from me and you.

Shouting! Not to make you jump

- but simply for exuberance.

He looks you in the eye, expressing

excitement for any flash

of theatre, a piece of toast, a ray of sun.

Like, always it’s a Xmas or birth day

present moment

and, every time, a bead

of juice leaps from his heart

- into yours.

But only if you’re thirsty

and ready to catch.

Bathos

Today every habit will be cured,

every cliché – cut – to the quick.

Getting dressed,

I put my foot down,

pull my socks up;

put the boot in.

Wide awake a while,

I feed my folly, smile.

Being a Child

Darker, father, faster:

later pater? parcels now are

sweeter (beater) better now

than happy ever after:

softer, laughter longer,

more, not sore and soothing.

Louder, proud and precious;

fuller – dull – disaster:

error, mother, moths fly

to light and flitter frisky,

out of winter’s weather

onto moon of me, now.

Hope

When the sky turns Lakeland slate,

there’s nothing left to do but wait

for ominousness – maybe brightness –

on its way to bless.

 Trees are waving and a gap is near.

Turn to the sky and ache

for a far, far mountain

and long for affectation,

real hope.

Trees are waving and a gap is near.

When you glimpse its snowy top

your heart will leap

like hares – for real work

to start today – to begin – to do.

Hat

Andrew wears a hat

theory disappears

and he becomes expressive, happy.

Hard to get at – how a hat

- can do that.

Like an uncovered head

leaks a brain or mind or thought

but, covered up,

expresses more clearly

who we really are.