27.12.23


   smiled
           loved when his imagination kicked in treated him to the impossibleimprobable
possibly happened in his eyes  projected on them brain to eyes  or maybe eyes to brainhe could care less
he saw it unveil
                 first runmaybe   perhaps the only run
hes never had anyone jab him in the ribs and tell him  You wouldn’t believe what I just saw.”
                                                                                                    he would
he was susceptible to anything imaginable
                                             as a kid he climbed into big trees to their uppermost limbs sat in a narrow crotchswaying with the breeze and let the clouds act let them tell him a story  great white billowing cloudssensuous  dark angry stormclouds  both so passionate    clouds intrigued him

Where were you?you missed dinner. his mother demanded
You don’t feed him. his father said
his kidbrother I told you, he was sitting up in the tree on the corner.
Were you?
I was
Didn’t you hear your father whistle?
I heard
You didn’t come. Knew it was dinner.
Yes

Don’t feed him.

I’m not.
           He made his choice.

I did Im accountable



an ivoryamberstreaked coloured moon swept through the silhouette of a black bare tree

twothirds way through its crownthe last third the moon began to catch on the skeletal limbs  plaits   stretching like chewinggum
               either pulled or pulling  either in jest or pain or anger

the moon changed colour
                          ivory darkened  the amber deepened like driedblood
neither the moon relenting or the tree releasing

thickstrands thick spiderweave

   when the bulk of the moon  round  vast    was wellaway of the tree
                                                                              one or the other let go
a slow elasticity apparent

black limbs didnt trembled

the plaits caught up
                        then

the pair were separate

asif they never teased or angered or interacted

         but he saw
                            he saw

AMish,  Saturday,  16  12. 23
1033,  day-between-2-Ts,  27  12. 23

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