the base of your stable eyes
bedside lamp strokes
a glint in instinct
no white ghost mourning
all is dusk
in your iris blue reservoir
where game birds hide
in grey and heaving enemy
culled, harvested
under lightening shotgun flare
I want to believe
the kitchen is clean
the animals are all ok
that we could proudly
photograph the pantry
full full
we walk talk
in tall grass
isles of goose neck,
black eyes and bergamot humming
solder the day break to our realities
routine the planting, the messages
with hand balm soaking down
through the coal seam.