ought to look at -- thinking is a space to fill with words. In the name of the human vigilance propret animals are being torn apart all along one side of the museum while all the men of science, a row of heads stare sternly out. Yes evolution is murder! Along the river bridges wrapped in silence and sculpture on this one's backside someone has written NINA. Madame defend me from your inconsequential observations I believe everything I can say imagining life on that balcony over there painted with sunlight like an impressionist picture. Muse de l'art moderne: graffiti A building wears the art on its sleeve . . . A machine for thinking us with one perfect spring morning. Here or hereabout there was something called I whose feet in small steps covered the city and these 'poems' ..... versions made .......... at a great distance but sudden all the same ..... & browsing among the rubbish -- I .......... look up -- an abrupt museum as if the windows took flight ..... dinosaur skeletons glimpsed .......... through windows set high in the wall Paris, April 2010. 4. ASH CLOUD, KEW GARDENS AND SOMEWHERE LIKE a window swinging open ........................................\\... somewhere A landscape with its mouthings of trees. There are the words that will not need you Collecting in silence all around your mouth. They make it sound as if you almost meant it And you want to settle the words inside you, This language lining a mouth, A