Nine Moons
Physic
The moon changes size
Tonight it is small and high
white and hard as a pill
While you dream of stone trees
under the ground
it drops
from the sky
into the glass beside your bed
dissolves with a bone-saw sigh
The water clouds and then clears
stands ready to turn your veins into vines
to take the edge off the world
……….
Unplayed
Tonight I will
leave the house behind
I will climb out through
the bedroom window
and walk on dark air
that smells of salt
I will put my finger
in the unplayed moon
and make it spin
slip into its silver music
swim the silence
between
each
note
……….
Carousel
Things had a way
of disappearing in the garden
Coins, china,
boiled sweets,
secrets
A portrait of St Peter
A child singing
Every fingernail moon
Everything, stolen
My heart lost in the mist
for days at a time
Love missing
for so long, when it came
it was just
strange –
a disconcerting carousel
Just some kind of
waiting
room
at the end of the garden