Kit Kelen #1300 - the journey through the guts again - for the field guide / around the world in eighty clouds

1300

the journey through the guts again

for the field guide to Australian clouds 

(around the world in eighty clouds)

day after the Yuen Long white shirt attacks on democracy, human rights and bystanders

from a top deck

see the whole city

involuntary motion

building towards

synapse leap

above yet in

the myriad container hive

head full of here-I-was

this was a life

under and overpass

this pounding

a driving of piles

or say sun

top of the refrigerated truck

seems to be sealed with chewing gum

tawdry and fading the old blocks

tug tows dredge

and everywhere the water is

steel rubs on tyre on stone

it’s diesel pointing all the way up

whatever of heaven there was now just this

aeroplanes majestic gentle

seem slower than the traffic stalled

it is all apparatus

to teach the nature of illusion

city still and green where it can

a billowing as in hard skirts

blue above

clouds over surviving and gone

and me too

tomorrow up above

now gone