Jericho walls always fall hard on the

ear    too many signs luxate too brightly

the eye    once we believed in a thing call

it silence    a thing like a thing like a

song    we believed in a visual dream call

it green    that! dream was nothing but balm    once

we believed in all manner of things    once

we believed we believed    nought nought    we throw

back our heads & cover the every

word    we are but a poet & hardly
             good morning & did we sleep well    please write

             out all your best rhymes    say hello to rock

             be nice to sky    remember to wash your

             sticky lines    stand up sit down keep those hands

             where they’re seen    no talking walk backwards &

             sing sing sing    into the sweet silent green