have decided to collate in one place my experimental haiku style poems, from the making of the recent saltscapes series, written May 17th to June 17th 2009…
from salt and earth,
i made a dystopian green with envy,
and chemistry smiled somewhat slyly…
May 17th, 2009
the ashes sighed,
mourning the old flame,
murmuring, if only…
May 18th, 2009
a bloodshot sky
hand in hand,
we returned cautiously…
May 19th, 2009
in a waterlogged eden,
the birds took flight
on sensing the eyes of strangers…
May 20th, 2009
through a grimy haze,
all burnt golden, mouth glistening, black
faces, charred by an obese sun…
May 21st, 2009
the haze cleared, a crystalline sky,
salt lakes and tidal pools
melted, into the silvered silt…
May 22nd, 2009
a disaster area
belches black
fury inflamed…
May 25th, 2009
in ore, the chromium mire
life lies, sleeping
slowly mineralised…
May 29th, 2009
the melting cavern,
into saline pools
it plinked, dyspepsia…
May 30th, 2009
limestone rocks
salt trails a scar
in time, healed…
May 31st, 2009
underground, a stream,
of consciousness
where perception flows…
June 6th, 2009
a rockscape moulded
vestigal traces, marks
the slippery way out…
June 11th, 2009
stepping on stones, skipping
the sedimental slabs, water blackened
striated, to the shore…
June 15th, 2009
abraded, by seawater and salt
coarse skin, furrowed then frowned
at a more polished reflection…
June 17th, 2009
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