Moving


I. Moving Stillness

from here to speech & hare under dog's stare
by a liquid on a rock frozen as grass cased
slipping electric ally along in ice we are still here
a wheel's revolution films here is still an owl's
frames blur & pull an still shadow still an owl's
eye sleepily or speedily shadow molecules gripped
into & out of the fast in crystal chains air
clouds slipping along distance thick as glass granite sat
& through space we wheel on ground patient as
along our journey nowhere clenched in gone
packing the contents of stare at the rock & the
our house to move to look that bangs back at you
the next life & a world's is stillness your body grinds
emotions boil in a as cold invades soft
mouth & spurt from with solid old space
lips to swirl out then in in the sky has collapsed
to an ear & another world's & the battle is over with
motions of fear or its horrible silence & the
peace or lust emerge snap of light on film
from another mouth fast the grip of image the
& swirl into another's imprisonment of rush
ears & so a speech flow captured jagged
moves into another's speech unchangeable sounds a
and a voice moves through melody with out time an
another's voice & longing impossible song without seconds
or hating are arranged or minutes the absolute
in motion so a music zero of a god's grave in
is felt as time moves the still dark of space a hard
outside a cage of gone's not hole of iced lightless silence





II. Moving Conversions

a mouth spurts solid old space words
convert movements to words a mouth
sucks liquid-new substance inspiration

replaces still

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a swirl into another's imprisonment of rush
a cage whose bars are speed & change a
whoosh of a lock's tumblers a lover's fall

into a bound less boxed other

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another's voice longing impossible song with
out seconds or minutes a voice moving through
melody without time hating arranged minutes'

absolutes loving moving without space

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a wheel's revolution films here's still owl to
slip revolt there's owl's soundless flight plays

headlights & shutter -whirr attempt capture
now's owl's sudden ghostly swoop cuts

the engine ticking over after crash then's
slow motions of final scenes move on

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along our journey nowhere clenches gone so
yesterday will move slowly away I try to
imagine flying birds without motion so I am

close to our time without its space

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another's speech moves un changeable sounds
another's speech changes unmov able sounds
another's speech sounds unmovable changes

speech -sounds move a changeable other
speech -moves change another's sound
changed speech others a sound-move chang

ed sound-moves speak another

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as time moves the still dark of space
our earth spins whilst the flowing dark
face of earth trickles through human fingers


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clouds slip along distance thick as glass
the ground near to my feet rushes past
I cannot stand still as the world turns be

neath this sky's hot lens


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through space we wheel on ground our
ground wheels through space we rough heels
pace round go eels race through our ponds
will we grace our round peals our ploughs
turn earth our planet revolves through

space we wheel on ground

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emotions boil as cold invades soft
lovers in ice move through minds

as the still zero settles its halo
what was told hot unfolded fast

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eyes sleep ily & speed ily shadow molecules
sight follows particle logic virtual skin feels

a trickle of electrons as sweat down a spine

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frames blur and pull still
shadows a movie-maker
melts stills across eyes

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from here to speech a hare under dog's stare
from yelp to race a child's flowing tears

from blood to soul a story being told
from here to then is then to there

from sniff to poem a man's hunger from
here to speech a hunted to hunting beast

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in motion a zero
of a god's grave

we bury self in
a still centre of

change

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into & out of fast crystal chains a per
petual solution as perpetual solid stuck
fast to speed a perpetual motion a

computer flick -flacks zeros & ones
a chemist in a lab just realising the in

stant of a blast

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lips swirl the sky has collapsed a kiss
of wind speaks flying debris puffed
cheeks and then a tongue's arrow

bang on target down a voice-box
a vortex roaring in a world's throat

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molecules of fear & horrible silence atom
ised raw air voices billions of square meters

of skin sore count down to zero's absolute
mobilise electron messengers mobilise

computed troops mobilise cathode-ray tubes
declare TV war -ning we are at red alert

radiate error radiate error radiate error mobilise
mutated organic molecules for final flow

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our house to move to with solid old space
where reverie is so solid & young with its

flowing

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outside is gone's hole of iced light
less silence inside is arrival's whole

melted bright sound

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peace & lust emerge fast from a mouth
quick-touch hatches its tongue warm

-voiced loose movements spill


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the next life a world's
snap of light on film

a celluloid body revolved
projects its sexy ghost


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slipping electrically along on ice
we are still here in our speed though

the electric whiz of ice on skin seems
to burn us see -through slipping quicker

as our slope deepens trees tangle fast
enings & dances in blur our fingers

meet electricity moves through with us
moves through us moves us arrival

& moving have merged

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the next life & the world are
stillness your body grinds this
life & a heaven is movement your

soul breathes

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a speech's flow captured
jagged but we makers heat
each icicle-syll able till it

melts


© Mark Goodwin 2006