seasons

may time unwind its precious vine

and throw up a tremor

a hiccup of the soft summer air

a burn of the daily oil

fierce and bright

flames lick wild in silent delight

oxygen, air turns full and wide

and smiles once creased to horror

creased to madness

creased to wide-eyed hunger

return to the song

the morning chortle

soft and sweet,

warm strokes on the cold haze

golden flakes etched onto the black

flames dance and run

blue spark and fury through the joint

where time’s fruit dropped to a common earth

where beatles crawled an army hand in hand

where the setting sun roared in sadness and joy

entwined in misery and ecstasy

soft grass laughing beneath tip-toeing feet

young and old slip and slide

meet neath the brief starry shell

for what was ours is now gone

and what is theirs is the time

falling sands ticking into eternity’s bosom

and the eye can only grow soft and warm

damp in the wind

tear runs soft and sure

lights tear through the darkness

switched in mad-eyed reach

hands buried deep in dark silence

climb out to steal the spade

to dance and rage,

angry before the wheels of suffering

sight breaks on the new land

lights tearing through the darkness

into far corners, into every vessel and vain

and turns to stone, slow and dead

in eyes before a shrieking crowd

in hands trembling

in feet stalling

and falling

in the cold gaze of the lonely mountain

in promises broken and ripped

destroyed in fierce rage

maybe my days were turned

before i had finished the script

maybe fear like a snake

crushed those dreamy embers

in its binding coil

redmist rise in the dwindling light

panic rage on the falling branch

where the meandering spirit fell

to a shriek before its curling demon

a plot spinning

in the late summer warm

running to its slow death

burning to black smoke,

madness like a spectre

loomed by the turning wheel

madness like a knife

runs smooth and slow along sleeping skin

madness like a howl,

rattle through the skull

rattle through the bone and flaking flesh