June / On North Hill

blind drawing

for Kelvin Corcoran

axial
fear bone
tender acorns
tender engines
probe frames
angular
tri angular
spot sun
is this blind drawing
and where?

warm fingers to lip
tidal surge and resurge
Colette sounds
thunder collect

broken bark
smoothes my face

a branch is forking down the clouds
turning pen into shadowline
and pylon
branches chased to sea

West, is where you're tending
he said

how do we survive the westward
surf culture
the fear of immigration
the fear of immigrant self?
not detachment
but embrace
and the interchangeability
of frames

real drawing is like this
and now I have made
the bridge too wide
the peak again
piercing the pubic bone
the public bone
rising

Kelvin said
Just the sea, Frances

 

sur sur sur sur
sur surring


su su su rus

 

 

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