when the levels uplit the levels

half of this and half of that
as though such draughts
and the house half full of ghosts
of the interior and interior
reckoning, for only then

as though some judgement or determination
from on high
as a kite flying low over the levels
it comes
knocking at three am
what you ask what
but it stands there pale
as harvests as half-eated bad moons with no faces

that anyone would recognise such things
at all is beyond
the pale/faced and tied
to the pole squirming before the denouement
where yes all that
as expected oh

it's love
and nothing at all
just a plane that fell from the sky
in pieces like ashen snow
just a boy
sick with it
off school
forever

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Misanther Panther

that got scientists thinking

MISANTHER PANTHER 

in making the concept of entropy precise
any of his comments had an open mind
which represents rank and enfilade do you
overstep the mark not much short
of blood loss involved in a member
of its own affairs—he gave them the slip
THE CLAW-SLIP THE HEAD 
by getting no idea is that true it can be EEK
shaken off simply by getting relocation
powers the difference everything they could
in the succession of firstborn girls to push
it through in one day—stay right where
you are in a single day in the opposite direction
unaltered even with incomplete reassurance-
an old question back into the consciousness
no other frontiers
whose lands had been,
I felt, deeply ashamed 
(finally after centuries it steps out, the PANTHer the ThInG)

...........................[it didn't work] ****

veering later, backing in the commons
at the forefront of arguing 
year on year he too has shaped
the voices of the living/their/appalling/histories

now, now they saw a chance to do the same 

the whole land has become
remarkable
forever

.

FOR SOME REASON TWENTY-SIX HAIKU FOLLOW THIS ANNOUNCEMENT

this black beam that can't support its own light

.

all around the lake below Cat Bells lemon drizzle

.

one of those days when all your teeth somehow don't quite fit

.

that's me and you Iris, far off on that bridge, look

.

it's that time again when the big hand points to nothing

.

arcades 
of nothing the big lake
.

full of monkeys the car slips quietly into the river

.

6 am not a bell ringing anywhere

.

one by one the frozen crows fall off the wire

.

if I had a pound for every time I'd have nothing

.

this and that most of all this

.

under the ice your early face beautiful frog

.

8 am who doesn't need a servant?

.

all up and down the eastern wall that maddening flute

.

it's not quite Winter not until you too start snowing

.

in all of my dreams that vast black bird stamps upon the ice

.

love's first shiver my third eye takes a second glance

.

Elvis came by
on his bike
pale as a duck

.

girlfriend in tree by the pale gate tooth problem

.

another bowl half full of dead friends

.

up from the aliment new snow all over the table

.

fragment and phrase oh shut your mouth how can you say

.

blue knives at midnight by the garage a frog hops by

.

melting frost down the wire you old crow half full of love

.

gumph like suddenly a head in an ashtray

.

night's hurricane
in the morning
we lie like lost leaves

.

wormy as the copper bottom

found three boys rotted onshore
or half so as squids, half-human and one still fancy
oh you mary sailors
child from salty shadow she crieth
what then of you, child of herringbones
you severy purpoose and freet?
and the while the wavebirds in their keg-leg-longings
of pups and rots and if you swaiver
face up to a seven side-on, breaching
the son-keel we'll give you then, listen there
on watch, for we abaft
the fortitudes, the runnings, the most of all
the berm and discount at 45 no 35
the goodwin the shocks and socks
the layingdown and the timber below
in the floors and strings that hold
and all beside out-cocks the blow

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