The Figure Eight

I

Suddenly an overflowing,
a bleeding heart, a helpless brain.
Humans are like cherry blossom,
shining in the act of falling

out of the eyes of the cosmos.
Fire extends its tentacles,
providing a double service,
being there and doing evil.

II

A passing mindset, a fleeting
mentality, nothing to get
your self hung up on, gravity
falters in mysterious ways:

that goes without, as the saying
goes, an old colonial twang,
the physics of quantum ethics,
one minute here, and gone the next.

III

The proving ground of the true we,
seen from a safe distance, must be
melancholic, says book four on
the real of being-multiple.

For suffering the finery
of your sweet poetic honey?
Yes. The Platonic procedure
will take us to Paradise Lost.

The expert’s eye movements do the
polar bear on ice, mind floating
over the screen, targets flashing
too much history of the eye.

Thus it rains again, you dirty
old cloud. Biographical drops
drip from a cramped and dodgy sky,
lonely enzymes singing their blues.

The whole weekend got up at length
and Monday followed suit, smoking
a good one too. Wholly! We there
for the one reason of being.

Icicles wandered in the wee
little time units of sad nights.
You wished. Your pupils on the cringe,
the light several truths too clear.

I’m making a book, the child says,
but I need some cellophane tape.
A stream of complaints will follow,
grass growing fast, birds singing loud.

We turn the clock one hour ahead,
to the future. More time now for
botany, ornithology
and is this not the happy life?

The federal government will
undertake. The disaster zone
closely relates in many ways
to roads and bridges and other

water systems, shortly to be
elected. Say that again? You
can say that again. Robot broom
sweeping gingerly out of tune.

You gotta have a system, dear,
at least, at last, a list of things
to do or get lost, lust upon,
lest juicier fancies turn up,

prettier, speedier, filled with
orchid heads. Bee in awe for them
will not leave the premises till
the fat lady, stung, starts to sing.