the pale green eyes of the year now lost
hell came two stones as once the voices came;
the chimes that blocked the scent of apples blood
once caveman now a foetus in a shell;
from fear of light from the golden globe
came circus hands
to the throat of fruit and laughter;
one man as two as bolts un-earthly crawl
how many nights an alien passes by?
where no sea shakes
so shakes the hands on the iron breast;
Zion on a water bed
grieves my time from pillar to the post
what matters most now god has bled me dry?
a child no more, instead
a teething man with antlers sucking sand.
ten commands two days jerusalem
bows and slays he risen from the ape!
be love, be poison,
hanging like a grape!
a man no less, before
secrets to the grave on borrowed time
this earth has stuffed me silent
still-born to the calf
if I cannot laugh, I cannot cry
with pale green eyes
where gone this year now crossed?
a death now even
on primrose hill
lightening strikes me twice, but still,
the voices come and go
this bending year
two stones that came and haunted summer long.
once caveman
now a foetus in a shell;