Elemental

Poetry is sadness and cruelty
so it's said
for the polis and the arch's shot dread

here's to lyre and light breathing village waltz

to centred smiles

to the cologne of emotional gravity
defied in a warm day's walk

water, flame and earth nearing me owned like apostrophes

and air is everywhere
desert and ocean
all hours and owls

it's thought and flight
vilified
but holds the light

colour and shape
optical, over and above
the stuck surface
of linguistic post prefixities

I claim the atmosphere for lungs
and thief
eternal light from the grip of
all dead who wished they could release their columns, they waited

and waited in city's time
tram bells and logic's
fuzzy amor
spirally revisits
of hall and hammer falls

and the hurricane's spat fire
base slim for emergent gyre

the Moebius median strips
gardens dipped in burst bud of telegraphy

and the brief arrival of wings
shakes the dust of
ethereal ethanol and the fumes
plume billow fellow pillow
willow feather weather
foul and dreamt air fare
wherethere whether we're there or elsehere, hey.