The Pursuit #3

the blossoms are ashes

    the blossoms are rotten and from his ashes

dead and rotten and from his

    he is dead and rotten

and from again

    he is dead and rotten and he cannot rise again

he is dead and grave he cannot rise again

    he is his grave he cannot rise again

over his grave he cannot rise

    grown over his grave

have grown over his bluebells

    have grown over cowslips and bluebells

have grown but when cowslips and bluebells have

    and daffodils

but when cowslips and bluebells

    and primroses and daffodils

but when cowslips and violets

    and primroses and daffodils

but when with violets and primroses and daffodils

    alive with violets and primroses

mould alive with violets

    up through mould

alive with

    rise up through mould

alive may rise up

    through mould Winter may rise up

through that Winter may rise

    of that Winter

may sure of that Winter

    quite sure of that

was quite sure of

    I was quite sure

Winter I was quite of Winter

    I was the grave of Winter

I lay upon the grave of Winter

    they lay upon the grave of

but they lay upon the grave

    wilt, but they lay upon to wilt

but they beginning to wilt

    but they were beginning to wilt

they were beginning to

    they were beginning

they were

The Pursuit #2

rainbow that rainbow

    fallen out of that

fragments fallen out of

    they had been fragments fallen out

as if they had been fragments fallen

    they were as if they had been fragments

the sun they were as if they had been something

    here in the sun they were as if

have been something here in the sun they were

    would have been something here in the sun

Monday would have been something here

    in an Easter Monday would have been

on an Easter Monday would

    far off on an Easter Monday

from far off on an Easter

    brought from far off on the rain

brought from far off

    the rain brought from the rain brought the rain