While you sleep, circus ring

While you sleep, circus ring

Think only of bill and bank balance,
of quarry pitted guilt and the way I ruin things.

I am leaving you to live in attic Reykjavik,
this love currency make face missing.

Questions of hand-holding on high wires -
the degrees of separation between spine and feet

matter not on mattress. Come out to me and balance
bird beak on the edge of old lake meanings.

Come catch a train from an eye grey station,
read coffee from the clock and catch breath newsprint,

travel to me - conductor, city, big top
ring man collapsing from ice stroke, in some luggage rack

town you’ll find me groining sapphire studded leotards singing heartbeats
catching nose bleeds in my fist along with corn coloured krona

buy potato wine and things that make feel heat,
these mistakes are acrobats.

Come out to me,
climb rungs of intestines. Leave fear sleep.

I will make you castle of milk and smoke cream,
nostril O announcements while the strongman clefts your cranium.

There are tigers with more technique in identifying activity -
I think I quit this, circus rings me, you sleep, Reykjavik.