Hailaker
Iridesce
Would you be annoyed
By a scene lift?
I’d control it;
Your comma’s impatient

I ripped your corduroy
But I don’t wanna date it
It’s better in a lazy void

Can’t decide
To take you off my shoulders…
It paralysed
In an even layer over
Have I come far? It’s taken me under
And I swear I didn’t notice I was
Westernised
It’s mad, the hum…
I’m at the summit

Could you be destroyed?
Should your speed shift?
You chose the colours
But I’m honoured to have weighed in

Am I in your joy, had I hit your ceiling?
I’m an ogre, but I’m running it close
Do I really have to resit
If I think that I can cheat it?
If I don’t show face, the numbers know...

Is it arrogant to leave it?
If I blinked it wasn’t real
Hint: I wish I’d stayed Canadian

When the four of us were moonlit
It was pinker than I’d seen it
Our oil glowed, rained - radiant

Cut it at the join
Did you see rifts?
It's my layover
And I don't wanna waste it