i walk the earth mountain road long and narrow the forest hearing of this i live now cut a stick to hold in hand stand and see the foggy sky on salt ledge stop and lie the cloud spits on the mountain like thick smoke on the tree tops a cold wind blows stabs to freeze rubbing wet with itching knees over rivers lakes and seas snaking red and left and right hunt this day clawing the fight snow and ice two feet of white pushing through sharp at the knife feet like stone the dull black night no moon's laugh or star to sing fear to sleep flower to fling vomit pull if liver fall down the sandstone ridge to bite 2.7 9/7 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson rhyme
earth mountain road
14
May