Occasional: Naming
October 1 1989the hoop clear up in some sky
over the big dream of music
and long lovea wonder swimmer lifting the strain
muscle
and flat foot hustlelast miles before the next record
bar up in some sky
over my dream
and long lovethe lasting float above rain
above swirling vapours
clear
and unendingorchestration
and no orchestraevident
holding natural
the big truth
one we can all take
and remake
as the videoreplays the train
killing the castanets
click click
in the backan echo outside of music
in the store of arrangementmiles before any shot to set
he knows where to hound
and the fake
grants him this reboundbasket
*
jets are scrap metal
in this boy's collective sensein his house
the castanets rest
generous items
supporting the home musicand the miles of flat notes
mute power lines
radiating from his basketball shoesas he lifts up to float
gentle and all timeperpetually there
no matter where crisis riseshe sustains
an arc up over historyall smiles
all fears
all determinationhis breathing his inspiration
an emulsion on cloth
picking up the imageon the long horizon
in the recent heart
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I admit when facing it
he makes
all power and glory
no matter where the moon skull stalkshe teaches me
to lay it up quietlya sweet flicking fan
air
waves over the falls
simple steps across the court
the drape of netsee it
*
oval tones in winding pipes
and then out
to announce some
east or sky
above all that hopes to fly and floator make it
in the desert
heat
an oasis beatvast on both sides of the street
miles of solar landscape
*
his eyes are alive with the hounds of fission
and the colour rings on that planet are not naturalhe links our sightings to heavenly spheres
and we recognize his handiwork
as all that appears for milesgood echo control
no junk
floating
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the score calls harmony here
fans
drown the hallthe breeze above this commotion
flings us back to the locomotionthe train too slow
to sneak the tunnel below
the range of his splendid floatbasket
June 12 1988