———through skeletal trees, rain—-toy-town rain, a rain
for doll houses and small horizons 

———elsewhere, perspective 
is the enemy, abrupt as handrails 
end-of-pier

———weather metaphors decide
the appropriate response—-chemical 
ghosts, ejecta 
enlightenments, the incoherent patterns a perfect 
foil, teasing limits
from limits

———rain
a dew-lipped shadow—-a vision pool—-a stranger
in the alley, the blood bludgeon soak-through

———rattlesnake preachers no match
for squally, tin-roof racket—-for gulleywash hulls rocked
clear of sandbanks in the swollen river

———it is November until it is not—-evading
the ways to explain these hazy declensions

———childish 
drawings—-fat clouds, shaded black 

/

Estill Pollock was born in Kentucky, but has lived in England for many years. The pamphlet Metaphysical Graffiti was published in England by Highcliff Press in the 1990s, followed by Constructing the Human from Poetry Salzburg in 2001. Between 2005-2011 the book cycle Relic Environments Trilogy was published by Cinnamon Press (Wales). A collaboration with Broadstone Books in Kentucky provided the impetus for his recent poetry series, Cartographic Projections of a Sphere. With Mudlark, he has published the e-chapbook editions, And Then, Working Title and One Hundred Views of the Mountain.