Signal, noise, girls, boys

Simple toys grow subtle ploys

Symbolise, destroy

A handful of days

Scattered through our busy lives

Grasp tight, don’t let go

Words tattoo their beat

Spilling out onto the street

Abstract and concrete

I follow your gaze

Down overgrown holloways

Wonder what light weighs

The surface tension

Holds me upright, stand in bright

Repel attention

Wandering river

Though you waver, weave and bend

Never will you end

Hiding in the reeds

A foghorn’s sudden release

Once bittern, twice shy

Can you catch the light

Smear it onto stretched canvas

Pluck it from steel strings

Time is made of no

Time’s behind obligation

Time rules the fearful

A thousand footsteps

Must have beat these fishing sheets

Can I catch the fleet?

Through floods and gullys

The running river forges

New banks and gorges

Stand straight, sure, swaying

Solitary sunflower

Strong, silent statue

Thistledown borders

Bristling field and bold forest

Bare ankles tingle

What is a city?

Bricks, mortar, concrete smoke?

People, together

Seek my reflection

In the ripples that I make

Help me cross the lake

How many more moons

Until I see you again

Will the sun still shine?

Building, gathering

Reinforcing, steadily

Early warning sighs

When you bid farewell

The same star now lights my path

Oceans are no wall

Eyes that looked away

Now stand and stare when you’re gone

What stars do they see?

We rattle and shake

Shift between clear and opaque

Strings bend and some break