Future Primitive

TOM BARNETT

The slow remove

so slow the light moves

across heartache hours.

Five-fingered silver-white marksman

made marks

while tocks ticked clocks.

A smear, a scratch, a spray

un one-colouredsettling and rearranging

A slow revolution - the short of the long and quiet of the short.

The shortest confidence day.

Our longest half-hour

Long may we begin again!