Friday, May 20, 2016

Kit Kelen #140 -- coin of the realm


140
coin of the realm


passing from the accumulation phase
and into enjoy-it-while-you-can


the word wallaby must not appear
there is no moon in this poem
but leaps and bounds as to the river
(shhhhhh)
I clap but out of range
now there are five, now there are seven
each a different facing
they graze on last light


count them in the direction
of sleep
these halfpennies
king or queen behind
eyes always the other way 




 

2 comments:

  1. I have a penny just like this one. Somewhere.

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  2. I like the conflation of wallaby in the landscape, wallaby on the coin

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