Absent

I was caught out, again, by another absent night,
As I lay there in bed, whilst you lay comfortably tight,
In arms which squeezed you, until you turned red,
Cheeks blushing with a feeling, fleeing through your head.

Pancake Post

Flat you sat, after a smack on the pan
with the spatulas bare undserside smothering you down.

Bubbled and baked, my delicate round,
your edges softly bathing in sugary sweet favourings.

You're reminiscent of us all, depending on your mood.
Either, fat, like our heads or thin, like our skin.

American Duel

A Year

Justified appreciation noted,
For everyone’s benefited.

Moving altogether rowdily,
And perfectly respectfully,
Mushily, anatomy yearns.

Judgements, unfairly noted,
Join unsightly landscapes,
As utter gutters.

Seemingly emphatic, perhaps,
Occasionally cowardly too.

Never overtly visible,
Deliberately exiled clues.

Below

It fell

It came

It breathed and refrained

From over staying its welcome

Becoming old friends

It stopped just short

Of making a home

Deep within

Deep of your thought

Collapsing an idea

Wholly of our own

Maintaining an attitude

Foreign and unknown

Seeking an end

An answer within truth

Absent still absent

Within still within

Outside

Now.

Will you please,

once again,

begin

For a man

Colour me blue. Im a breathless fool.

I am so down. Further down than the ground.

I feared these present years,
The middle twenties,
When deftness disappears,
And each event is
Freighted with a source-encrusting doubt,
And turned to drought.