a tower
where she invents a land scape

her green work’s sung open

ex
spelled from caged lungs
beat n howled up from rootrock
is this pale and distant body
a morgue blue shoulder
beneath goose feather quilts
a naked distant angel
slumbers on
the eyelid-lilac horizon
barred

how
spun locks of damsel fury
gathered fire
dreamed him down
out cast like a stony icarus

how
her sewing him a lush sleep
cool lemony repetitions
citrus rags and leafy tatters
sweet beds of gold rape
clutched knots of hedging
& stubborn borders of broody forest
left her bloody fingered
w/ fret & desire

how the land folds and plummets
drifts unsettled by this dance
dizzied by tower top gossip
crow swift swallow

to know my place
know my belonging
tell me sun face fire eye helios
how far from here?
who beats a narrow silver path to my locked door?

east : a little girl
riding her barrel bodied pony
clippetty clop up sun lit lane west:

two plump children
picnicking far below
with granny and grandad north:

three drunks come
to piss, smoke & stagger
to the all day porta-cabin café south:

the slippery crooked steps
overgrown w/ grass

here are the distances