not drowning

are you ever going to be

where I want you to be

 

in a shard of green light

in cezanne

 

in a chopper

to starboard a mottled cliff

 

below

grey sea

 

useless the colour of guts

and all that's inside me

 

in the dark for millions of years

then squandered in sunshine

 

cinematic distopias

the slow wine

 

of ancient hypertexts

ambiguous lines

 

drift through an underground carpark

in atlanta georgia

 

it's in your dream, your movie

black limos glide

 

a star

on each side

 

impasto of tire hush

and the thud of car doors

 

we pass

steel elevator doors

 

a slow ghost

bends, a shopping bag

 

her child

in a pusher

 

strings, unisons

a slow beat, sixths

 

somewhere

mortal flesh

 

falls

silent