River Desire
creations bare bones
now fresh frost curves nudity
living silken suit
sky heaves as life leaves
tense and laboured atmosphere
ice rolls and rises
our souls rise steaming
endless joyous crashing waves
in the Atlantic
clouds slip and steady
hesitant steps on the sky
clasping smoky hands
magpies in the dawn
stretched feathers crack ice from wings
nights grip distant dream
gossamer chainmail
locking linking clicking leaves
bare branches of trees
white clenched grassy fists
knuckles shudder violent
cracked skin dewy blood
blue-white smoke wraps bricks
chokes and releases the day
from the traps of homes
rivers whisper break
a crusaders fractured still
ancient collapsing
the breeze breaks its bones
endless scaffolding and stone
cruel mountains and coves
cities fill slowly
coffee boiling fat love salt
rivers of desire
rivers of desire
flooded night drips from the walls
bodies in gutters
engines in the towns
growl into life shuddering
find themselves alive
ice tossed across roads
turning ragged edges sharp
life to diamond
artistry reveals
icy brilliant painting
on our windowpanes
suddenly drowning
shivering to be alive
rise and feel it all
rise from the silence
the roaring cacophony
of my endless dreams
all the lust and dawn
you; more beautiful than frost
freeze river desire