Thursday 21 July 2016

Relic Environments Trilogy: Book I, Part 1.xx

from Book I, Part 1, Mystery Tramp Eclogues


Serum Ratios at 36°N

The geography is the key, its contours

nested in degrees of wind and rain,

slumped coconut trees,

cockroaches shinnying the sweepings

in this remote station.


In mountains descending seaward

the deer turns its head, and with it

the geography, the position of landscape

adjusts itself to waves

shushing through bright corals.


Through monkey protectorates

the path arrives, through hot waxy leaves,

through spores of shitake and ten thousand stars

eaten raw, ten thousand disappointments

swelling saffron flags. 

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