tracent

        the madness of scars

as jet roses twist

up the chlorophyll arch

into the dream she enters wearing

bottles of mauve ink

tied around her waist

with ophelia's hair

the uncatalogued tree

growing down from a sky

dedicated by clouds

absorbs such delicacy

 shakes its blossoms

onto could this stumble anywhere?

schlosscafé stuttgart

verticelled

perhaps gerald manley hopkins

never engaged the modifier

because he was a good biologist

because plants throw us

what they cannot use

light with wavelengths

           of 490 to 560 nanometres

     or

particles of a promise

that penetrate the dusty pores of our skin

and bind on thinning membranes

to trust receptors

wattstrasse basel

modernizz

where concrete and steel meet

parquet floors and surrealism

it may be necessary to stir bluebell seeds

into my sixth cup of coffee

so the pathologist can write a report

that sounds like children playing

hide and seek                                                                                                  

                      on the other side of disappointment

paint the bathroom walls

dust-on-debussy

hampstead london

utterflies

with hollow abdomens husked    from devastated stories

wings shimmering with uncertain faculties

because they dried on the tree of dreams

antennae that can

     bend

   into unrecorded punctuation marks

& a proboscis formed as it feeds

on a pharmakon of choices

      exploring contagious spaces

so please

do not pin them to your mind

kunsthaus aarau

terrable

and then i saw

fanny mendelssohn

         leap         from an empty seat

in the third row

to grasp a dying soundwave

from kaija saariaho's

second string quartet

there she swung

in billowing fennel-white skirts

green glasslights through her hair

and i wondered if she was trying

to amplify

         or break it

lucerne festival