Unpicking knitting
in the woolly thinking
of the woven heart
with its crosswise

threads of emotion
spun like cotton
to make a complicated

work of intricate thought
that is patterned and poked
by needles from the planet
mind to clarify the pulsating
knowledge of this muscle
of all muscles, rhythmic
with circulating blood
with which to take
and to give heart,
expressing hidden meaning

through so much feeling
with stitches of plain
and also of purl poetry
dripping with lifeblood
and best known to those
who knit and to others
who carefully un-knit.

The Key In The Lock

The locked mind
can only be unlocked
by a very special key
from the world of imagery
that needs no commentary
or explanation to set thoughts free.
The locked mind can only unwind
and become gradually unblocked
after the key that was thrown away
has been retrieved from yesterday
when imprisonment held sway.
The effortless insertion of the key
in the lock will set minds free
as it opens them up to poetry.
Don’t throw the key away.

Haunted

Do we haunt images
or do they haunt
us?

Is the chicken
the image
of the egg?

Or is the egg
the image
of the chicken?

And where
do we go
from there?