Friday, 3 August 2018

Untouched by Day

The dawn slipped by unnoticed
as the page you’re reading
the reconstructive business of the morning
strikes me with no harmony
as the hammers drill and discord shrill
as the wounds of gulls
slips into my consciousness and winds
everything in me to a steady standstill
the taste of nightshade lingers
in my brain
and on my tongue the brine of ocean green
the imagination keeps me yawning
the night is not done yet
despite the trials of morning
there are thoughts on which I have to sit
I have ideas still to upset
and while the dawn slips by unnoticed
as a cat on a council house porch
the planets still revolving
and stay in orbit
outside the realm of morning song and outside
the reach of the sun’s unrelenting
pain, and revealing touch.

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