i’m not looking, only thinking
(After Bill Hammond’s ‘House and Garden’)
house, as in a building that people, usually one family, live in.
(there is blood on the walls)
paint? dripping
plug sockets
green blood
(i’m not looking)
a house
garden, as in a piece of ground surrounding a house, in which flowers may be grown.
(birdmen in the rainclouds)
gray rain, blue-gray
myth bleeds into art
(i’m growing wings)
bleeds into life
and, as in New Zealand’s favourite home and lifestyle magazine.
(mountains embedded in the keyboard)
maybe piano
barnacles growing on the piano
how can i play your song with no fingers?
(i’m only thinking)
i only know “Heart and Soul”
Presentimental:
the traffic light is missing green (go home). you
sense my stare but you are half here, half disappeared in
that tv static that threatens a total shutdown. still,
something light imprints itself inside the eyelid: see how my sight
is spent. drive backwards through the round-
about until we finish at the start. tell me
to turn off all the lights; tell me the future will
occur.