Saturday, 6 February 2021

#408 - three poems - no one survives a self, to be then not, destination Belanglo

 


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no one survives a self

 

five to one, baby

one in five

                – Uncle Jim

 

rule of this world and of notional others

(for godsbother)

 

beards of the on-high

and glimpse of sunstruck parting

fools will still call heaven

humble

 

plenty kid along

to advantage

many ripe to suggestion

open

fancy they see the print through the page

 

I live in the great fire of time, don’t you?

take up our blood and go

 

blessed to be woke

mid such superstition

nor in the truth of love

   so trumpeted

just as much as there is

 

still the work is othersided

(wills work free of the loom

no more than these words)

 

can you hear the angels singing?

     frightening familiar

   as if members of our choir

 

stray stars to supernovae

 

there isn’t a where-to-which-we-go

close to certain as can come

 

many still try

 

no grammar lasting

think kindly and play nice







 

to be then not

(our situation)

 

managing an instinct

 

make a wish

made hard

dreamware

a who-how

what to expect

 

smash and grab

or tenderly

call all flesh to conversation

witnesses to stand

far spells

like drink

 

learn love from the cradle up

cruel truth to

other end all time

not so many now

 

the past was hard

no less pretending

 

a verse of so soon gone

traces artefactual

rhymes find us in the midst

 

can make miseries out of almost anything

advice, a bottle, mirror sigh

pleasure of need met

 

as in and dreamt foretelling

and through it all come hither

 

song first ours

then give you a wrestle

or we could call it a dance








 

destination Belanglo

 

responding to Tug’s

 

the Belanglo joke: coming through the forest at dusk, the hitchhiker says to Ivan, ‘it’s getting dark and scary in here’. Ivan replies, ’You’re scared? I’m the one who has to walk back on my own’

 

it’s always coincidence brings us

atoms to the cell

moments pils

 

the girl in the boot on the highway    

the narrow escape of her friends

 

have to imagine thrust and parry

the bundling in

 

and that these people were, not of their nature, newsworthy

 

some will say good as she got

 

warrant outstanding in a twist (interstate)

was this an over-zealous citizen’s arrest?

a knife for compliance from the dream kitchen

 

so many known unknowns here

and so on, vice versa

 

narrow, lucky

dizzy in the dark, forced

minus meds in there

 

though bloody and still bleeding

could poke out a tail light

wave a truck down

 

would no news have been good for them?

had she gone quiet?

was it all screaming?

 

so many questions the courts are for

and can have no doubt this was justice

lurid albeit

 

once were like sisters

and some sisters are

merely acquainted

but you cross a line

 

motives still under investigation

 

we do know

it was her own car







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