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awake & sail ( lias & ekawa )
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awake & sail a phantom mist the shapes of wraith - a tale, a twist the night is day, the day is night & shatters punch the mirror's fist a groan of bones, a bluff of blood & earth's a ghost, a rush of mud a bat of flaps, the black of white the curtain fell - a crash, a thud the lemons suck, the daze is grey the spiders spin, the pipers play a swan of songs, a swimming kite a peaking trough, a sliding brae the lizard scales the boxing frog a barking cat, a purring dog the moth that fled the candlelight is scrawling balls in analogue a silent lark, a wood of stumps a blooming moon, a goose of bumps the ruse of breath's a feathered flight & skin's the stuff of custard lumps a feast of peas & buttered bread & sleep upon a creaking bed the breathing dead, a speckled sprite until the light - & live, instead ...