Dawn emerges across the mountains,

through the forests, across rivers and fields,

down the circuits of Pompeii & St. Louis,

Niemisel & Crewkerne

The circadian adjustments rise

in blood & hormones

as I am slowly made aware,

fragments of dreams dissolving

like the faint scent

of a passing woman's perfume

on a smalltown pavement

as a mighty world occupies my face

with face value,

that I must take it at

All stubbornness of lost faces

asks to be taken at face value:
Sirkka, Dellaree, Judy,

as does the numbness of the forlorn faces

of Sune, Sture, Syssling

The situations in Kiev, in Baalbek & Kathmandu,

in Nok Kundi & Mesquite;

all encompassed in their tactile face value

of this moment, this world,

the words of diaries fluttering up

like Inger Christensen's butterflies

through the hot midday air of the Brajčino Valley,

at face value

All necessary deeds, all unnecessary,

plus all deeds left undone;

part of the obnoxious face value

of each & every every & each,

down the halls of institutions,

up the calls of the Wild,

through the merciless power

of photosynthesis & holy gravity;

with all imagined deities

and the black coffee

that smirks down the cylinders

of office mugs

all across habitation,

at the same forceful Face Value

- not forgetting the fiscal face value,

the forensic face value,

the fidgety face value,

the full scale face value

or the face value face value

Face Value rises out of the world

like mind out of anaesthesia