saturday night’s alright for judith e. wrighting
by Andy White

word miners
rhyme diggers
beat hoppers
everywhere

solid gone
raving on

I can’t write continuous prose
any more
all my phrases
fall into
separate lines
thoughts bookended by

pauses

and as the latest metaphor comes
crashing into my head

a chinese spaceship landing
on the leaf of a magnolia tree

I find myself
back with the prose
of the melbourne plain
(where rain rarely falls)

fixing a house
where the holes get in

hoping

keeps my mind
from wandering

listening to

word miners
rhyme diggers
beat hoppers
everywhere

solid gone
raving on

from “Stolen Moments’ Andy White 2011 (Another Lost Shark Publication)