Born inside the gates of a family
Hardened by a roman machinery
Cast among the building sites,

The coiling wires, the shots collected

Called out in the wake of a lottery

Held inside the family gathering
Mirrored beams and dog-like stretch
A wandering $$#ociation

Murmurs in the dark confessional
And rides along the road, ephemeral
As an animal life


Rusting in the shade of the batteries
Hanging from a rope in the gallery

Pacing down the balance beam
Of half-remembered holidays


No rush of light no sun or belonging
No joy in building, live in the finishing
Chasing down an anodyne

And half-reflected radiance
To hide below the ancient barricade
In chambers like the rooms a swallow made

For an animal life

Charging down the maw of the ocean

I want to come close, I want to come closer
I held your name inside my mouth
Through all the days out wandering

But called up from the mouth of oblivion,
Cast away like dogs from the shelter
I she'd the dulling armour plates

That once collected radiance
And, surging at the blood's perimeter:
The half remembered wild interior

Of an animal life