A collage of ideas and images proliferating like clouds of blackbirds, a maze of rabbits, thickets of blackberry vines, thorny and sweet; delicious trips, stumbling over half-hidden nurse-logs into unexpected places.

Size, Speed and Distance


I

Mad
-scientist, I
drink deep of an ancient
elixir distilled at midnight from
the sweat of gods and a few
common herbs

and I

begin to shrink at a steady, relentless rate, I shrink
as walls, desk-top, chair-arms whoosh up, I sink
into the cushion I’ve been sitting on, I sink
between threads thick as hawsers, beneath
my reaching feet land on
a filament of fibre dwindling
into a single
molecule
col
        l
    a
        p
   s
    i
        n
      g
    in-
to
      in-
              fin-
      ity
in
    an
        in-
stant,

      I

      become

      a universe.