Saturday, 22 February 2025

25. Kit Kelen's 'here is the garden I am' - inviting Natalie Cook into the conversation




 

here is the garden I am

 

adorned with years

and lean back

webs catch dust

 

behind a curtain of the creek

further than you can count

 

let the chorus come

 

each easily foretold

come to live in such time

 

you curly tree

and flit

 

you who are coming into names

you whose names are falling away

 

know that I am the garden

of picnic tradition

where bears park their bottoms

 

and listen up

each to a calling

 

sky, tin drip

wrack thy evening

bolt from blue

 

scribble it down as fast

 

infested with old ideas

I, flaunting the new

 

humbled with

wild in applause

 

still you're that once-upon kid

wink of not knowing

 

just a wandsworth of

long long ago

 

wired to the wild, just say

paths fork

 

here's the flea unharmed

treatises to nail down the door

 

swear off the exegesis

 

no time for

moon shines through

 

after the golden ages

 

in all my lacks and lusting

leaf deep mulched with

 

puddled home

for whimsy

 

I tie my tongue

trot off

 

in this place

shadow lit

 

rainbows other end us

and once upon a time

 

climb out from under the pile of self

a song yet

few facts left

 

so touching

it is to decide

 

fish half plastic

the ocean too

 

grist for the mills I run

to cultivate abandon

 

let rattle every little heart

borne upon time's palanquin

 

it was always too much information

 

better to push the barrow

make hills

 

better to stand on the soap

than to slip

 

preserve me in hard liquor

smoke to me when gone

 

who but me lives this?


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