butter star
smooth as butter
fat as yellow
not even a tremor
to it in the air
steady as an
age-old
truth
venus
just off the
raggedy
evening
pine
till cloud
silent as the
morepork
spreads
over
it.
evening, 14 november 2013
Copyright © 2013 Peter Le Baige. All Rights Reserved
tone picture
words just
too simple
trying to
paint
in
blocks
the sky
this morning
a sky of stone
dissolved in the
softness of its
grey scarves
running
blotting out
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for June Le Baige, in memoriam
why did you
settle for
all that uncertainty
everything here at
the great divide
you can take
in your hand
or upward look
of the eye hear it
like thunder of
an autumn come
everything has
its place even if
in another’s pocket
yet you settled
for that other side
always a person who
liked things in
their rightful place
put back there
again and again
till time itself
runs out be damned
everything’s still
where it should be
yet you finally
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