Desert Window

Yes, you perceived it when the garden opened you

Each city needed your eyes when a feathering crowd of memory passed

Or when some winged thing lifted and danced in zest

When you looked on from desert window

Light arresting on my heart, dear

City's mouth is running too fast

Walk around, collect found-sound

We gather fragments uttered, edge-lands offered and all that we hear, all that we see, is held at a distance

Still

Tell

Wing

Bell

Green knee

Field

Plough

Bowl

Moth

Soft thing

Wax and wane

Bolt

Rusting

City

Skin, you're

Silt-like

I love you too

Overlap

And erase us

Words you can't

Use, laugh, tears

Try rain, sun

Heart, eye, strong

River city

Yes, you perceived it when the garden opened you

Silt-like

I love you

To flood you

Wax and wane

Each city needed your eyes when a feathering crowd of memory passed

Above you

And steeples

And chimneys

Or when some winged thing lifted and danced in zest

When you looked on from desert window

Overlap

And erase us

Words you can't

Use, laugh, tears

Try rain, sun

Heart, eye, strong

River city

Silt-like

I love you

Yes, you perceived it when the garden opened you

To flood you

Wax and wane

Each city needed your eyes when a feathering crowd of memory passed

Above you

And steeples

And chimneys

Or when some winged thing lifted and danced in zest

When you looked on from desert window