the joker – a play

the joker* – a play
beijing 2010
*reference to the joker as he appears in the traditional Tarot card pack.

The Joker as depicted in the A. E. Waite Tarot pack illustrated by artist & fellow member of the Golden Dawn, Pamela Colman Smith

does it get better?
i don’t know,
but worse,
for sure.

i took to the
road a muddy
path at dawn
that first
dawn
the sea swelling
to the dark
foot of the cliffs
the path
along them
at the
mad edge

i knew
the break out
of sun on
a world
of crooked towns
the ships at
harbour rigged

undrunk on the eve

undrunk on the eve
1 january 2023, in the glen

Undrunk in sober light… a post-Weathercat snap of the past

in uncertain
dusk of new
year’s eve
finally
transplanted
the sunflower
seedlings, grown
adolescent tall in
the rush-up of weeks
to the last hours of
last year, into
earth hacked
back from lawn,
transplanted them
in dusk as my
own saying of
the wish that
some good
out of that year
might flower

in touching

in touching
for Keikei
december 2022
in the glen

rain in the furrows… pictured by the raincat

before
dawn,
falling
asleep
again as
one, head
by your
shoulder,
your fingers
again &
again
through
my hair,
rivulets
down
an iron
roof，
the pop
& flare of
tui call
in rain,