The Lascaux Nebula

This layby seeds the dream

wakes the dizzy bird

wilts the wild

bares the wires like

sinew moving electicallity

this ruby green gas  nebula
familiar like visages in wood
The mind papers the gaps

above are the cave works
obtuse, deceitful, recondite with
formulas of simple intimacy.

breaths of carbon monoxide

iron oxide

urine

brothers and spirits

or are they   

the mind recoils with the distance
this superlative smells of animals

draw the bow string,
and release (this is not about Archimedes)
a fantasy of pressure and dust and
imagine the sound
that seeded the fallow field

we below breath quietly and ask
and scrape