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Can silence expand like a gas
Huge and invisible without limits
You listen to the background noise
Of life
Time swelling
The sound of others reamed like
Cards in a flair shuffle
Are stars invisible now
You stop caring
No longer addicted
To their estimations
Not love
But shadow and the day
Moving
Sky is greater
Than anything within
The world moving at its own speed
Slowly belief comes back
Like a bleed in reverse
What comes later
After
Shadows in summer
Faces in autumn
Its damp of buildings
Road without end
Things we do stay
We run and don’t know why
Away from what
Still again
Vehicles pass
Life is happening now
There is sky and you
Have done all you can
To help your parents
At night stars
Coming into view
As strings of lights meaning
Distance
Dream recurring too
High its
Moments corruscations
Day moving back
Moon maker
Site of your making
Stared at
Moving
If metal let it be
Silver
Or volatile or mineral resource or
Inert
However you are feeling now
Over glass
Sea and song
Shells
Stars
Silence
Is the colour white
Whole oceans
Somewhere far out is
A boat
A path in a dream
Shadow run
The lost three quarter view
From above
You wish they knew
And could answer
Symbols are still real things
Sometimes
Stars of blazing chemical white
You try to recapture the intensity
Of light but the image is gone
Used before and
You have to look with your own eyes
For something new
Frost and the dawn road
If you could talk just
One more time and explain
Everything
What would it mean
To be there again to have tea
With an old man
Who was there to share
A drink after work pouring
Out a measure for a bad day
Can sea be feeling is it bitter
Or dream or always there
Or waiting for exchange
View from up high
Tears on a plane like
Lights
Like sounds from circles
Of green shell windchimes
Some kind of sestina or pantoum
Or chiastic
Memory of frost in winter slow
Descent of water dripping into
Ice from above
Returning
Sure
They have forgotten some things
Parts of who they are
Locations
You remember
The disappearing of data
Like
Prisms and birds
Robert Burton is an experimental writer. His poems have appeared as part of the Earthbound Poetry Series and his book Annihilation Monopoly is published by Veer.
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