#terrainian

What you had waited for, a treasure

bubbling up from the river underground

came to surface first come the day's sloping

into night, what emerged caught and gave a light

the colour of that place that will accept you,

elongate its strictnesses for your sheer acts

and acts of well-reasoned refusal. 

You now returned, we talk tracing the source 

(hopeless): the clue is in the hue, not the rise

over run. Conclude back to the dream of being

weightless somewhere exotic, think parrots,

breeze block forts and  brand new  reclaimed  matter

decorated in tenants

(eco-tense, entrepreneurs,  trending   and     trended),

carry the eye  between cross-streets  on the back streets,

breezier than the main strip, stomped   and rolled   hot,

oral exhaustives  line curbside  imitation french cafés

(hear   passé but she had inviting eyes    spoken in 

a slack,   guttural,   Angelino   drawl   but nice,  true:

Hardwood Floor with Human Female