The Sum of Herzog’s Landscapes

poodle salivating on snot linen in spring air

suddenly changes season as the fern goes goth

not punk spiked or catastrophic more melodramatic

like the political scene in Sweetie suburbia

in the air starved hot house where ants shame

way out of swoop season to the avocado

coloured grass breaching for sky dying eventually

remaking their image like a magpie at mirror phase

the curse of Cham in clouds Saturnian and pink

energized like a burrow brimming with pig feed

mineral bonanzas elated flies and sea things

on the necks of ladies trotting

over the lashes of drinking and the sum

of Herzog’s landscapes