he
hesitated
got up, walked to a window
disconsolate cows
chewing over the menu
in which they will figure
de la region avec truffes
the eye relaxes panoramically
although to sit in these chairs requires
considerable
caution
& pleasure takes place in the gaps and cracks
the stubborn door into the garden
where it isn't sunny (but it is ah not raining in Tokyo either
jolly good!
they were rapidly forming words for each other
while the "new"
bedroom offers
the opportunity to discover
another
points in space & time to lie horizontal & snore
z z z z z z z
can you make a word with that?
the girls are asleep
& K
I
alone am awake – O and the local birds
tweet tweet
*
TOKENS OF WELCOME
it is yet almost incredible to myself
the value of such
trees
brown and grey over the fields
and far away it's the same only
things have changed
rickety shelves
the air stalled in piles
& pears
wooden in a bowl by the light
faces grin out of other afternoons
a hundred decisions we wouldn't have made
in the fridge
a bottle of wine
chilled
& perspiring
*
GO & BUY SOME MONEY TODAY
as usual, soon after
breakfast weather
forecasts dictate
the day is unco-operative and sulky
even the church bell is on strike
mildew. dust.
and now a dinky red car turns
& disappears behind the
were you in it?
THE KITCHEN SINK (LITERALLY)
quite enough still to stand at the door
& fold the shutters back on their hinges
in the stone trough
water left by rain
we certainly can't escape there's nowhere to go
what's meant by
getting away from it all
MERELY SANDWICHES ETC.
merely sandwiches etc.
& not a minute to
myself I'm trying
to develop
a blind ear
once or twice put down some
thought
which struck him
particularly
the idea of moving further east for the winter
or the agreeableness of yesterday
"you have sung quite enough for one evening –
now be quiet "
most people experience love
without noticing
breakfast weather
forecasts dictate
the day is unco-operative and sulky
even the church bell is on strike
mildew. dust.
and now a dinky red car turns
& disappears behind the
were you in it?
*
quite enough still to stand at the door
& fold the shutters back on their hinges
in the stone trough
water left by rain
we certainly can't escape there's nowhere to go
what's meant by
getting away from it all
*
MERELY SANDWICHES ETC.
merely sandwiches etc.
& not a minute to
myself I'm trying
to develop
a blind ear
once or twice put down some
thought
which struck him
particularly
the idea of moving further east for the winter
or the agreeableness of yesterday
"you have sung quite enough for one evening –
now be quiet "
most people experience love
without noticing
*
often it's something
you paid no attention to at the time
without interruption
the sun had moved
all round the room
her being seated at the table and
taking up her spoon
unusual brilliance & coherence
*
N'EST PAS?
allowing for her little whims & caprices
and expecting every thing to be
as she
likes
we
finally arrived
in the village beneath
ominous clouds of if and only then...
we admire the lanes maintained
in finely judged dilapidation
it's an exercise in cunning & restraint
this art of knowing what to avoid
as the swallows
who veer & vanish up under the eaves
know well
*
FILM SCRIPT
the scene enlarged
& two persons appeared
the weather continued much the same
much weather
much the same
how weather expands
to fit the space available
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