CARRYING ON AS NORMAL

(RECONSTRUCTION)

During an absence

I safely stashed

I know not what

I know not where

walked for an unknown

period of time

ending right back

where I had begun

Imagine it if you will

The forgotten item

had disappeared
from my grasp
seemingly

without reason

leaving me perplexed

when they demanded

what on earth

I thought 

I was up to

first walking around

ignoring them

then standing

staring at my empty hands

What are you on about?

I asked them

somewhat irritably

EARLY WALK.

Orange is turning purple green as the harbingers

of a February sun wipe slates to a shine.

I am enticed out and about to where the moor’s wind

has descended and become a street-corner bully

using its blade on my eyes; the rhombus doorway

now has blurry edges and my cheeks are wet. I walk.

Later, the grumpier of Brian’s waitresses asks,

Why don’t you ever have an egg with your breakfast?

Returning, I sway. Wrapped in duvet, I wait for sleep.

FIRST ATONIC SEIZURE

vague

puzzled

reception area

brown carpet

turn round

glass table

whistle silently

pale face above

man in dark blue
stair well

climb into the ambulance

no recovery time

I thought you had had a heart attack

there was a big white patch on your forehead

they made you walk downstairs 

plate glass
pieces everywhere

how the hell you didn’t

SIMPLE ADDITION

Count the numbers of people

worldwide who have

multiple sclerosis

cerebral palsy

muscular dystrophy

parkinson’s disease

The sum total comes to fewer

than have epilepsy. Check it out

Please tell me if WHO

don’t confirm my assertion.

You have my promise

I will not throw a fit

JONI

I wish I was back

where I never was,

swimming in the hot air

above your pavements,

blinking at your skyline,

dancing between the ecstasy

and grief of a single note from you.

I came to Toronto in ’95 but you had gone.

ON SURVIVAL

If cornflake-tinted leaves were to descend in slo mo so slow

they might look as if stitched to the gauze-mist

infiltrating trees, could a singular wave continue

to break against the flow of a muscular river?

When six o’clock sunshine lays itself along the valley bottom 

the parish church clock clangs to proclaim it both

exemplifies the status quo and marks its evolution,

so stating one cannot exist without the other.

READ ABOUT A DIFFERENT

COMPLEX-PARTIAL SEIZURE

FOR EACH DAY OF THE WEEK:

Go to Friday, 18 Jan 2013.

there you’ll find Monday’s surprise.

That will do for a start...........