Bark Kora

Landscapes

In the Ashtray

A tiny sun
With yellow tobacco hair
Is burning out in the ashtray

The blood of cheap lipstick suckles
The dead stumps of stubs

Beheaded sticks yearn
For sulphur crowns

Blue roans of ash whinny
Arrested in their prancing

A huge hand
With a burning eye in its palm
Lurks on the horizon

In a Sigh

On roads from the depths of the soul
On blue-back roads
Weed travels
The roads disappear
Beneath its steps

The pregnant crops
Are raped by swarms of nails
The furrows have vanished
From the field

Invisible lips
Have wiped out the field

Space is overjoyed
Staring
At its smooth hands
Smooth and grey

On the table

The tablecloth stretches
Into infinity

The ghostly
Shadow of a toothpick follows
The bloody trail of the glasses

The sun clothes the bones
In new golden flesh

Freckled
Satiety scales
The breakneck crumbs

Buds of drowsiness
Have burst through the white bark

In a Groan

The flame spurted high
From the abyss in the flesh

Beneath the earth
An impotent fluttering of wings
And a blind scrabbling of paws

On the earth nothing

Beneath the clouds
The weak lamp of gills
And the wordless screams of algae

On the Hatstand

The collars have bitten through
The necks of hanged emptiness

Second thoughts hatch out
In the warm hats

Fingers of twilight peep
From the widowed sleeves

Green terror sprouts
In the tame pleats