not many people know
what happens when
a lady-killer and a femme fatale meet
in a bar
but they do
argue like glamour puss fight-club rehab
icy rain
wondering what sweetness figures just
or dimple desired
if love catches nearby
dining out on stories like a sky-fall survivor
how she's quite completely here
while also somewhere else
almost as much
dark tree loose marble rolled accents
crows by an electric memorial on rough grass
how many work-outs needed?
a hundred times easily breaking
asking riddles of each other in hospital
De Sitter's cosmos where time's eternally still
an occult mini-death such as a swan princess
but inside the secret room
windowsill and glint watch
the two of them spin their seats cool as DJs
laugh like that again
beginnings pointed twinkling cat wheels
could've missed this like a bus
seen the journey diminish awkwardly
framed in an art film
from beside a simple shelter
instead I landed on your table of bets
green smooth as an artificial lawn
whatever we placed here quite plastic
flexible and lasting like wishes
puzzled over and nibbled
what could nourish this inkstand?
me a traveller who can do addition
some birds a little alarmed
living backwards out loud as I am
impossible things believed bread-and-butter
a deal of silence to read
Maverick
dentist-pleasing grin
black punctuation hat
fools' gold stories in a saloon playing cards
when I visited from a ship
a fancy cowgirl shuffle
found full hearts and six-gun wits
cyberspace rangers and frontier scribblers
prices on our books in separate hideouts
inventing a campfire for our stories
flinty we're smoke curling away
herds of furious wishes over plains of paper
while you write of deals and losing letters in bars
spurs jingle the desert of a new page
riding this white horse til I drop
out there out there out there somewhere
