#764 - the necessary conditions of childhood

 

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the necessary conditions of childhood

 

to keep a prisoner or more

animal under lock and key

 

yet monkey dance

yet possum climb

overspray endearment

 

you ought to be anonymous here

where nothing has a name

say rattle

 

here are the spills to thrill

the fresh baked with us

 

hush rockabye, the treetop risk

what comes from the oven

can go back in

 

you’ve been given

halo apotheosis make manger

tiny birds attest

a dance around the first idea

 

here’s truth

and yet no lie

 

all this, as if on wings, rising

mum and dad have the keys

 

take length of day, of sleeps until

arrow fraction of noone knows

 

those other planets, in a beam

here’s where the straying starts

 

and later, men, womb-bound, swim

their little avatars

born to the conversation

 

then rug chase after milky tits

and here come teeth – watch out!

 

everything inconceivable

first eyes for the all unnamed

 

and later let me tell you

 

everywhere in chains

cherubic

 

soon you will know this is beautiful

                      all of it

soon you will sing to me