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square                                       of space

Leave
Disconnect
Empty
Come down
Let it all go

The land of different colours

And pop, the atmosphere is gone...

Lines of white
Complete themselves

In the morning
When you're the only one making noise

Sandles
In lines

The last flickering

Chickens
Screech
Call

Upside-down
Trees grow from the ceiling
And the world is truly huge

Breathed for a moment

Vast
Stick boned
Fleshless
Creatures

Cancer and sparks, closed pores
Sympathy Unwanted
Sympathy Wanted
Changed
Alive
Changed

Boiled sweets crack
A sherbet explosion
Twenty-five years ago

Gold leaf paper
Floats ahead
Of cigarette smoking man

The dust comes down and through the desert fog he is coming

Ice and time
Watches
Clocks
Tick
The cuckoo returns

Brazil nuts contain selenium

My fingers won't work

Leaves crunch
People battle
Dogs walk their owners

Scrabble chips and balls of dust
Dried ink pens and coins

The moss
Soft
The trees
Hard
The sky
Blue
In pieces

Handles
On doors
Turn
Click
Open
A new world

Pandora opens her box
The snow comes down
They're in the mist

Splinters
Pins

Breadcrumbs around your eyes
Sand has settled
Asleep on the beach

The timbers creak and join sounds from A to B

A red stripe
A slice
Bare

Candles burn and the icicles fall to the ground
Crack
Splatter
Pieces all over the snow

Towels burns and bums
Children too close to the heat

Candles ignite
The room is lit with yellow
That goes to black
The cat moves around my legs

Pandas
Step step step step
Chew

Honey and syrup and sparks and nuts

Panda eyes and polar bear sheets
Heaven help me
The cold comes

Candles burn and I reach out to them. I squeeze the flames between my fingers and then stare at the dirty black marks.

Sparkles in your eyes
Drift and fall like snowflakes
Till they settle
And swallow you whole

Dusted
Non-believers fly to the moon
Where they eat cheese
And run round in circles

Rain space
A special kind of quiet
No one can hear you

Seagulls are snow birds
They can't be seen when there's ice on the beach

The weight of you on my arm
The weight of your arm on me

Soft moss
Carnivorous plants
Open mouths

Patterns in the mist
Rearrange
Make elephants
Soldiers
Birds
Out in black

Fire
Marshmallows

Ice crunches inside my ear

Dancers
Black white green
Smoke screen
Something in the haze

Campbell's soup and mustard
Stir it in
It makes brown stripes

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A bird in the pond
Spins and goes on
And I go to the new house
With the new Mum and Dad

The moment when the snowman's nose falls off

Patterns flash across my eyes
Horses in the snow
Where will they go?
Only to the edge of the field

Spinning in the grass
Fresh
Green stuff
Up my nose

Sand in my eyes
And my fingers
Can't
Claw it out

Seagulls white-out the sky
Like snow too close
Where are the angels?