for Robert Hass
spring abrupts
like an open palm
walk through redfern
stop to watch jasmine spill
again & think of yr grandmother
pink fragrant naturalised
climbing the scraptractor
at the gardentop
the beggar replies to an empty hand
it’s just good to see you happy
& wonder again
how far things have gonelooking across heidelberg
from der philosophenweg
its dawn
a bruised ecstasy of words
resumes trestles –
after psychosis its winter
a sparse snow
descends a valley
each word returning an elegy
firtree snowflake tiergarten cigarette
their loss their loss their loss
again
dubiously pended
anonymous snowat the hauptbahnhof
a flock of rosering parakeets
call unmistakably
the greenest thing in words
mutter geographies of songbird lineage
& what symphony of error
what lyrate slippage
pilgrimed
your feral song?the antipodal drift
slips another arc
death in a missed wingbeat
lose time give it
now again is openpalmed
welcome eclipse welcome
jasmine
remember love
love everything lo——
Jonathan Dunk
Blackberry
1 May 2017