All Reasons, All Excuses

all reasons, all excuses,
explaining the act;
cat jumps, neuro-impulsive
contractions, acid-lactic burn,
muscular-skeletal framing
moving through-air, motion feeds back,
conic reception, brain-glint signalling,
adjusting, half-twist in air,
mouse caught

all reasons, all excuses
forgiving the fact;
eros his bright bow draws
kerplonk, phweee, thunk:
a dancing bear cavorting,
a drunken poet crooning,
fire of eyes and all at sea at heart,
aphrodite's shining girdle
borrowed for the occasion

all reasons, all excuses
denying tact;
friendship, intensity,
words known, meaning shown,
a 'fine madness', euphoria
burning like magnesium,
catalyst, catastrophe,
cat pounces, mice squeal
once, then silence

all reasons, all excuses,
judgement lacked;
love sprang, claws unsheathed,
twenty lethal hooks aimed
at the heart of the pulse
a strange death-dance
played out in slow-curving time
beneath inkblack skies
of pure impossibility ~~

reason force-fed after,
excuses unwrapped;
mouse slain, cat licks
a drop of blood from a whisker,
directs after dinner glances
at wise-after-the-event
spectators: piscus double irised -
insensate blankness,
blankness; wisdom?