it is an opening field, reinforced by the whiteness
and I have no ancestry
I do not butter my hair etc
as I begin that patient waiting game
in an unusually large
cross-section of the marginal

I can’t begin at the end
(tempests, sleep scenes, the underworld, for example)
faint single chime
miles off

robber in act one, monk in act five

if it’s not there you can’t take it away
spirit leveller

Richard Makin