If there’s a figure to be
Beyond, simply, I
Skerrickless doubt,
It would be Pi.
Constantly useful
In eons gone by
And with inscrutable time
Before I die.
Bryson Thomas
Under the covers,
A sable universe,
Holds me
In subtle suspension,
Caught in a forever fall,
A vertiginous breath,
Beyond gravity,
Between feelings,
Expectations,
Pugnacious obligations.
Stars peer through stitch holes in the duvet,
Blinking in bemusement
At my arrested slide.
Still,
My mind,
Beyond such dark matters,
Finds peace
In the chaos.
Bryson Thomas
It abides.
Swimming ‘neath the skin,
A wrinkle in the cassock,
A creeping urge to sin.
Saliva on a wicked tongue,
A flicker in the light,
A collar button come undone,
Soft sniggers in the night.
Some name it drive,
Some cast it cheat,
Some call it wanderlust,
But all, at times, will hear its voice,
In that much,
You can trust.
Bryson Thomas
You are my safe place
My worn words are best place
My skin-prickling storm place
My bread in the air place
My oh-here-we-go place
My juice in a peach place
My crunch of dry leaves place
My rain on tin roofs place
My cat with the cream place
My un-tell a lie place
My brine in the tears place
My chest out to fear place
My share of a scare place
My reword the past place
My new things to do place
My glimpse of the later place
My there goes my breath place
And let’s go to that place
And come back to my place
And then go to your place
This whole town is our place
Forever is now place
Bryson Thomas
Some people make the world go ’round.
Others just sit and spin.
Bryson Thomas
Someone taped hair to a rocket,
It’s zinging through the room,
Shattering the speed of sound,
Blam!
Whoosh!
Scruffle!
Boom!
Exit stage left,
Enter stage right,
It’s a three stage rocket,
Scooting out of sight.
Air.
Floor.
Couch.
Door.
This object is in MOTION
And it’s filling ALL of space.
But whats that Houston?
A pointed nose.
Frozen.
There.
In place.
A tongue extends.
A scent portends
Across the lunar seas.
A rump touch down.
A whimper sounds.
Wet eyes projecting pleas…
And, yes. Control [sniff]
We can confirm [sniff sniff]
The moon IS made of cheese!
GULP!!!
Bryson Thomas
Three-am
My city is a musky mistress
Brooding on bedsheets
Scrunched and creased
By fitful repose
Jazz dreams of halcyon past
Speed-read behind neon flecked lids
High kicks, carriages
Top-hats and typewriters
Replayed at twice-speed
This night she rests
Office towers, her laddered tights
Bright thigh-skin shining through
She shifts in her sleep when
Cop sirens wolf whistle
As they crawl her curbs
I walk softly
And savour her beauty.
Bryson Thomas
We called it farm
The desert called it visitor
Cracked dirt
Red as a split lip, torn
By screams of thirst
Coughing dust
Plough furrowed coffin dust
On desiccated crops
Of sheep bones
Divine oracle
Of Christmas parched
Clouds, just rumpled refugees
Dragging wisp-haired kin
In procession across the sky
Tearless in search
Of more hopeful places
Bryson Thomas
Four foot and eleven inches of grit
Wearing violent red shoes.
Hijacking life
From the seat of a gold Honda Civic
Indigo boa held hostage for the ride.
Brahms plays on oblivious
From speakers
On the dash.
Old 33’s on BBC
As the browbeaten car blows one-twenty.
There is no rush of course.
But, of course
There’s a rush from rushing
You should know –
Short legs move faster
To keep up.
Bryson Thomas
Sweet shadow
Embrace me this night
Warm, in the under-sheet spaces
With comfort
And lover’s embraces.
Sweet shadow
Enstage me this night
Odeon to sandpaper dreams
That polish my mind
In unconscious streams.
Sweet shadow
Unchain me this night
Hide me from governing eyes
Data collectors
And ravening spies
Sweet shadow
Becalm me this night
Your dark trunk a rest for my back
As I find meditation
And calm in your black
Sweet shadow
Enthral me tonight
With sticky-cheeked monsters with candy in bags
And firework wonders
With ziggings and zags
Sweet shadow
Inspire me this night
Murked well of ideas when others abate
I draw from you deep
And from thence create.
Sweet shadow
I revere you this night
For all you have hidden beyond reach of sight
You amplify life
In overcast rite.
Bryson Thomas
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