1
Believe in nothing
only this:
believe less, be
clouds, be anything so changeable
ionisation, anything so daft
rain, pores in the skin, stumbles
a list of words
a change, an unawakening.
Aim yourself at centres:
not when they can see clearly but
dear friend, take care.
Yours is the unhappy fate.
Believe mostly it is the dumb game. La
la! It's like a pretty useless music.
Oh poem, poet, drunken or asleep
poem you keep on coming back at me —
I — now that's one to watch
I warn you don't trust
— big, harmless, friendly little fellow, why
out there in the rain he's killed.
Ridiculous? Sweetheart
it's your life. I merely warn.
& signing off, to say
flesh, say fruit
ah the scent of it.
Mouth. It's the entrance
that's hard, not
not ever the utterance.
2
Swept over by sudden clouds
darkening, the tree was white
& white birds wheeling, then
on the other side
where the sky was blue
watered with pink a black
bird, a rook perhaps
vanishing behind houses
& the clouds are over
& there's a sudden rain
& hail.
3
Swept past it into anger
darkening between the lobes
& not discharging: held up
on just above the eye, heavy
where there is nothing: pain only
watered always out of some stain, ferrugic
bird comes in: bloodmetal drops
vanishing unclearness part: no continuum
& just the sky
half-empty
& out there, indefinite, the clearness of light
& short.