Lambent
Cusp at the lip eyelids drooped over the rim which side made
continuous quelled in a way those liquid heads pulled tightly
tensed to under the sealed forest of an endless conurbation
Analysis or evidence allows this underfloor system to spread
roots knotweed in your hair the scalp tangled as the detritus
washed the open amber weather welled and overtopped and
There we slept kneeling our eyes level the brimming substrata
shifted uneasily the issue was our confines our beds floating
like many rafts as if possessed by the weeping and wailing
Advice seeps into the shoes we wear in the shower there was
a floating temerity anxious architecture of inadequate gestures
we made and followed felt denied until our hands crumbled
And the cliff edged away could not reach sea we had planned
to meet someone other than ourselves a prospective drawing
down of assets futility premium bonds poured into the drains
We were unstable under these conditions difficult to insure
crouched admonished one day by the next list of instructions
suckling the teats etc etc you get the usual range of reference
We were the heirs privileged few or many we couldn’t calculate
ourselves but streamed wet on our faces the chronic diseases
in anxious phases appalled through the eyes spread out over
Our lambent screens
