#1824 - poetry, the escape room

 

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poetry, the escape room

for wise surprise

 

a motel for the night

 

who wants to be here?

it’s our secret now

 

working out the appliances

now voice controlled

 

you’re the one discovered

and this is why you care

 

a window’s not ‘stuck’ as such

 

it’s travel with this much damage

lie very very still

 

the grand plan brought us

this least of the calendar

 

must be discussed

the workaround

 

all tinker with the unintended

 

it will be a group effort, regardless of

 

comes to you like cadence

 

this wallpaper

shell you have always carried

 

detect a breeze, precipitation

cave drip say

 

drag on your chain

 

polite manoeuvres

nod to elephant and such

 

some in a corner fall to rhyme

or any other country, age

 

ask – what will we inherit?

pure of that

 

gifted with intention

all for the sake of

 

are there any civilians here?

 

you’re dreaming…

a question can’t be asked

 

for some the room’s not small enough

 

quip it down to size

 

there are uncomfortable moments

the key was always in plain sight

 

answer always was

 

if goes to the nub

thing is

can’t be a plan

 

grow wings

climb out to see

of stars once

broad blue

and all our ocean spread

 

the wish

for circumvention –

outlines of a larger trap