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, slyly…
May 17th, 2009
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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
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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
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bruised rouge, to grey
clodded clay,
clawed deep, the way…
June 10th, 2009
…
a rockscape moulded
vestigial 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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