Pound

Pearl born of grime in wave trough frothing maw
waltzed alkaline across the wooden sea -
the only one, mother’s daughter, hacksawed
father’s son. Bit fingers opened between
disclosure - succinct, sourfresh and raw -
while the deadlimbed sapling, rosin spitting
gushed delicate out in all pinks and greens.

An aggregate body without organs
wants a revelation, brand new, for free -
throws up its hands, its head and pleads, bargains
with deadlimbed, unbodied serenity.
Disclosure - succinct, sourfresh and raw -
it swings in clatt’ring cotton pocketfuls,
residue adrift in alkaline sheets.

Out in all quilted scree, earth’s panting womb,
illwind rapid wingbeats gushed pinks and greens -
bleating starkrimson pear. Sapling entombed
bruising brimfilled pivots through raw
dance until lettered olive shell turnfalls,
like salted earth, like acetabulum sea.

Whip rapid pivot poesie fell apart
in hot pockmarked sand - hides, excised, halfseen -
saw siphoned finger. Sorepride bleating heart
waltzed alkaline across the floors in threes.
Cotton pocketfuls of unbodied raw
came enveloped in nacre, opal ore
serenity, young rosingrime cassis.

An aggregate body without organs
forms unbodied wingbeats in pinks and greens.
Lettered olive shell, sourfresh, shortened,
smooths its skirts and then secedes.
Its sex to swilled salt turn and then withdraw
like the mother’s daughter, father’s clatt’ring
son - spied tossing earthtorn in sapling sea.

Illwind spells alkaline starkrimson maw
rattling round foamcladded quilted sea.
Pride rosin pockmarked threw its head and saw
rhizomatic unbodied cavities,
its sex to swilled salt turn and then withdraw.
The locusts come hothard and fast, bleating
disclosure - succinct in all pinks and greens.