1 September 2025
estimating the air
negative skin, scratched chrome, which self
is injured, has injured, which looks through
injury to the dream of traversing ergs
dunes pavements bajadas hamadas
the gibber plains the rocky deserts it
could be surveil yes that’s what walking is
looking (and recording)
which
chrome is scratched
tho’
cars have little or no chrome
now
just negative skin in a commercial on what
once would have been free to air television
and now is such a tiny sweet thing of
plastic soy oil carbon fibre made from sky
and a bit of steel still
add it all up and it’s more than the bio
sphere
the oil in the air
it has an appointment with you
you are also
clothed in it
tread lightly
on the air
you are
a mechanical egg
with octopus ethics
unravel your symptoms
by accident
every word here is spelt
the same in american
but in the mouth feels mandarin
the dates here tonight are on show
i’ll let you go
take care