three unfinished pieces (2008)

1. moving targets

what goes here
where everything emphasised

sun barely fitting through

(how to de-advertise?)

______if buying surprise
__________________((this shortlived)
how to not be irritated?

is it we’re more ourselves
___________________-'outside',
in writing? _________(these super-questions…)

we keep interrupted
keep cold

sometimes we let the world/room fall away,
_________________________disappoint

the ‘better’ word is patient & waits
__________________________(despite this)
we jump state


2. unopened

_____________________we’re old nouns
but softcopies also
_____-our heads slip in the wet

(this the sleep between the shell of the seed)

we cross a ravine by way of a fallen pine trunk,

still panicked by multiple senses of ‘lie’
_______-& ‘yes’

___________a chance to re-read
______________ourselves

__so far
______we know only a few basic words
____________of this other language
_____________________________we are making.


3. filmic glow

we bend the light, pack it down

that constant act,
_____________consumables,
technology’s very joke

when the day melts,
__________________-tired of ideas,
___________-spills easy complaint

we love & hate poets as they love & hate
________________-(truth arrives late
______________________________little-known)

these works we forever talk of writing, but never
_____________________________-deliver

‘truly major motion picture’,
__________-how we feel after that

_______________________film nursing / injuring

________________this has been... needing
________________to happen
____________to us