Sunday, 11 June 2023

#1257 - Penelope

 



1257

11.vi.23

4.163

Penelope

for the deam journal

 

where a place is like another

in a dream

 

should you say palace

we’ll invent

 

you’ve been and never been

 

ready for lessons?

and a door won’t lock

 

as in a kind of casino, just built

 

you are lauded, hailed, ignored by turns

they have elected you speaker

 

no induction

come down old familiar stairs

someone has scratched your initials in

 

things known you need to know

all this without a word

 

but waking you must find

 

they come to their slaughter

it’s facelessly

each has had the time

 

a garden party with delicious paint

biscuits and brushes to rinse – genteel

the blood!

 

it’s how we are first folded

must stretch

 

I’m telling it just as it happened

 

steady up

like foal first standing

 

nor ever allowed this dreamweight

box of breath about

 

an accident to wash your hair

sleep shakes like music out

 

could have kept on

it’s a kind of forever

 

I had an appointment

where you find me

still plural

 

it’s rarely a word from that to this world

but have to find them yourself

 

soon there will be the tangle of wires

we have worked all this night to unravel








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