Photograph courtesy of Survivalphotos
Night Garden
Sympathetic herbs
in neglected pots.
The gods draw
their colours here,
cheeks puffed by
music and wine,
vibrating as if
they were not
pigments applied
but beings with
bodies and appetites,
a need for company
rising into the
canopy they make
of themselves.
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Stem
Stretching out
in imitation of
the bright foaming
architecture
of the brain
breaking bread
between body
and mind's
sensation of
itself, golden
ratios in the
curved stem
of wisteria's
first flowering,
buds breaking
in formation
like jets do
into the wild
blue yonder.
Tim Cumming’s collections include The Miniature Estate (1991), Apocalypso (1992, 1999), Contact Prin (2002), The Rumour (2004), The Rapture (2011) Etruscan Miniatures (2012), Rebel Angels in the Mind Shop (2015) and Knuckle (2019). His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Forward’s Poems of the Decade, the WS Graham anthology The Caught Habits of Language and Bloodaxe Books’ anthology of poetry from Ireland and the British Isles, Identity Parade. He made the BBC4 documentary Hawkwind: Do Not Panic in 2007 and has shown his film poems at cinemas and festivals worldwide. He writes regularly about music and the arts for the British and international press, and his paintings have been exhibited at Slader’s Yard in Dorset and the Rowley Gallery in west London
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