tattoo of the muse
your name a hot needle stitch under the skin in a m u s cle of DESIGN. details hinting f i n e as the images the dusk seals on your eye. for its THERE i believe truly we stand. on the crumbling BANK OF EVENING AND the stars are the Bleeding stems of flowers sheared off by the c o o l blade of the dark. it’s these DETAILS like a choreographer’s scribble a muddle of difficult STEPS and balances the precision about your name it’s these details journeys touches that linger like j ou rn e y s i’d have d r a w n within the blue line of a h e a rt. july 1988 london
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The music for the reading is from the Kyrgzy pop song ‘Appak suiuu’ (White Love) as recorded by the Kryghz singer, Yulia Ruskaya. A link to the video is posted here below.
the stars are the
Bleeding stems
of flowers
sheared off by the
c o o l blade of the dark…. wow peter [there’s an image to trip out on!]
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Ha, Dean, yer, you could put it in a pipe and smoke it. Don’t know exactly where my head was when I wrote it those 32 years ago, somewhere round London. Something to do with the muse, and her absolute ruthless beauty, perhaps….
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