The pain of my mind The warmth of light white dazzle The sound of a wind-chime sonorous clang of bamboo Cotton clouds above The chemical calm of anti-psychotic drugs Voices in the distance Tulips, cups open invitation to procreation Drink the life The warmth of white light dazzle sun glow The gentle blur of radiance Star burning fierce Love Friendship Distance The fire felt slicing through the atmosphere At temperate latitudes in spring In Spring In life bouncing back The circle, the spiral, the spin Earth around the sun Life and the seasons Movement and evolution The spiral of a spring The cycles Even birds have regional accents in their song Recapitulation The whirlpool, the hurricane Weather-patterned Earth seen from space Sitting on a bench Here today I am alive A being so rare So small Time Space Scale Galaxies common as sand Cheaper than metephor Time deep, deep, deep Deeper than oceans or Shakespeare Despair or dandelion roots Quantifiable but eiganartig Scale Perspective Balance My drugs are scales armouring me But amour The warmth of white light dazzle Spiral and spin Politics and progress I told a friend "Why worry about things beyond your control?" And I have minimal control over the beating of my heart I love the sun safely in spring at a distance of 96 million miles I have travelled too far north by north-west Let the obsession rest Let the summer grow in the northern hemisphere As the Earth paradoxically moves away from the sun Sit outside and accumulate a gentle tan Recapitulate Rub thyme between your fingers Recapitulate The perenials have reappeared The cherry and apple are in flower The banana sits in the dark protected against feared late frosts Freudian amusement wrinkles my face I have a friend like Tigger whose secrets I have been gifted I have sandals and socks on I have the washing-up to do Recapitulate The afternoon is courteously looking to evening to follow him Twaddle The Earth spins and light/night's terminator approaches Recapitulate Duty calls