there was that bird and now it's gone there was that flurry and now it's gone there was that silence and now it's gone 

the valley in the poem was supposed to be wintering but it had taken me far too long to start, and that spring green once seen could not be ignored. so - nail scissors from amazon, bulk order, landed, and then I gathered the local children - just from this village and the five or six nearest-by - and sent them up the trees. they don't climb so fast these days. oh, the past. but the trees by tuesday morning were properly stark, and the dawn when angling through them looked genuinely chilly. 

there's a statue of a naked man, sleepwalking, in the snow. he wants something, he's come all this way, his fingers are blue, reaching forward into something he can't see. maybe he wants to speak to you, but he can't see you, he is asleep. he can't hear you and doesn't want to, nobody sleepwalks towards a voice unless it's their own, pulled in frozen globules from the gut, from the seat of the unbreachable dream to the air and falling, twitching, little morsels inside out. has he come here to give you this or did someone place him here? is he walking away from his own burning feet? or that was a long time ago, and you have to get to class now. have to narrow to a whisper in the whispering crowd. 

not only remembering where it was buried, but that it came up perfectly clean. then won me a turtle, then won me an onionskin. 

five degrees

1

ahh mummummum ahh. teeterer, crookt wings arch tail. ahhh ahhh. teeterer. ground fingers mouth. gummy ridge. clay. to clean hole, a mummum. brung a seed. brung a none. brung a mummummum. crown stroke. straight up son. arch plant fold. mmmm. mm between. mmm a none. mmm a mummum. a crack. click a gap. thick as. a trick, filament track. in a none. in a none none. ahh ahh. a stretch. cold in a rock crop a cot. a got. a got got. a dapper nap. crow crossd. grabbit, a hole. cleant a trick. sole archd n swung. its here or it's not. a tot tot. up a tot. it's here or it's not.

2

we'll be made of wool. you'll be seven foot tall. you'll be forty and so strong. I'll be eighty and yield. breast of wool warm in the cliff wind. wind of wool. chalky yield. scribbles blue, petering. you'll be you. be eighty and climb. be twelve. feet on the cliff. blue. shooting up over a sea of yield. with crumby hummus feet & finger nubs of wool & woollen sun. it'll be warm. with back pocket pills of fuzz & woollen sun.

 suite for piano

"Anyhow, the pork chops were perfectly normal; then: mashed potatoes, warm beets, sliced unpeeled apple strewn with paprika, and a large cup of coffee with cream! I was probably expected to eat all of this at the same time, since it was brought to me all together, in fact the paprika-apple and the chops shared the same plate!"

Bela Bartok to his family in Budapest, from Seattle, 18 January 1928.

allegretto

frost dives into the centre of each rabbit and comes out shaking. the moon hovers, white slice on a bright day. above all fields are the new girls, wearing shorn hats and bustierres, serving wooden cubes to rubber men. the old relation is kept but we still don’t fit in the aeroplane. here we are instead serving sub-zero, hanging from nylon strings underneath the bomb carriage, tangling together in the rubbishy wind.

scherzo

our apology wears fur. our apology is quite sure of having had no idea. but do submit your dent below ear for a kissing. natural selection will tell us who was naughty. oh it pulls at the corners of our eyes. what a gesture. even stenographers can perform it and they often have to. employment is a form of attitudinal tic, by which we mean we’re just serving truthful sandwiches. we don’t choose the way the crusts will cut.

allegro molto

if you’ve been around you’ll know what’s building. if you’ve been around you probably think you want to be spoke and not gravel. you might have eyes that cannot be harried that won’t trundle hoops and into which a life can drop without a wink.

sostenuto

backstage, under the piano watching. the lengthy girls do their legs. mother is busy with the safety pins. not everyone can be paid in desserts. an aeroplane has a lot of weight but it has a lot to carry. the future. the sweetness of a phenotype. clotted cream. a national renewal. if you leave the car running will anyone open the door for you. I heard the sigh but I have my own dolls here. something has dropped. and so.

What is the difference between eye and light? 

The difference is that eye is the dark brown center of a black-eyed susan flower while light is a cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

What is the difference between hay and mote? 

The difference is that hay is a circular country dance while mote is a place of meeting for discussion.

 What is the difference between slide and glib? 

The difference is that slide is to cause to move in continuous contact with a surface while glib is to castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

That is the difference is that slide is an item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again while glib is a mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes. 

Sill can be a young herring or sill can be the shaft or thill of a carriage. But as an adjective safe is not in danger. Safe is free from harm's reach.