A Bottle Round the Dying Fire

Everexploding
huminy, huminy
beyond the northern point
and flying.

Always doggoading
drumity, funkyme
beyond, beyond
and dying, dying.

Frozen and freedreaming;
molten and skyteeming;
huminy huminy,
crystalthorn,
bumblebee.

The dead gasbloating,
rumdrinky, rumdrinky,
beyond the northern point
and flying.

Flames all freefloating
chime! chime!
seals all a-croaking in
rhyme! rhyme!
Beyond the northern point
and flying
lights and snow anoint;
I'm dying.

Beyond, beyond,
across the pond,
the whale sprouts grassypimples
popping
hunters scar their dimples
singing:

"Scarecrow of a spirit dripping
blood from grassypimples popping
ever always dropping, dropping
down below the clear.
Beyond the northern point,
past the lights and past the sorrows,
where day blends night and night blends morrows,
beyond, beyond
and crying, crying.
Everalways dying, dying.
Everalways,
everalways,
everalways dying."

[1997]