Robert Burton


Four Poems

Weather
Forges 
Regress to 
Earlier forms

Gap	gap

Of

Wasted 
Earth

Forgets

Clouds are heavy
And fall 
Empty

Watching us 
Develop again
Not the same

You can doubt 

Another shot
At rain 


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Truth bed
Sunset floor
Forgets rain
The sand there
Pillow 
Reanimator
You ride 
Sunsets 
Reloaded walk 
Again in letters
You own
Word glow
Without weight
You wake
Upward
Bringing back love
Letter shine 
A message 
About letting go


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Sea of ill green 
Heat of the water bottle
Bringing it back
White 
Blank forget of 
Perished rubber 
No vulcan
No tequila
Has drunk again
Linen gods and
Their names 
Cool down
Winter or another season
Where birds fly
No forge


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I want to rediscover 
My base element
Can you curl 
Beneath the ground
Wrap around a root
In your shape
Day grows 
Urn with your name on it
Just below rhizomes
Soars discovery
Mystery 
Flame 
You want 
To be unrecognizable
Feeling change
Star 
Stone the prettiest
Flower is fossil or
Ice 
Congeals on your skin
Colour never melting
Animal and mineral break
Categories 
Narratives of 
Transient and the never ending 
Grey waves break 
Like day you are there
Any thing 
Anything
I want to be
Just carbon

Robert Burton is an experimental writer. His most recent collection of poems was published by Veer Books in 2021. He has also published poems in print with Red Ceilings Press and Knives Forks and Spoons Press, and his work has appeared widely online including at Otoliths and Blackbox Manifold.

 
 

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