Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Kit Kelen #522 - what is it with the ear and the mosquito?


522
what is it with the ear and the mosquito?

what weird imagination thinks in?
product of specialized training!

conch calling
tinnitus intense

from cloud come home
a siren song
takes me from sleep
from the journey

humbled self to sacrifice
offer these acres of flesh
blood by the litre, but no

the wrath is righteous
cower!
the sheet and then the blanket
the fear of suffocation

I'd paint myself with woad
against this empire
all colour subdued to a sound

conditions clear
but the tower
says go around again

a clean sound
like the camel come
from its desert of air
and I'm the needle's eye

how's this not a soul?
example of the deity
in such attention
to detail

prayer for deaf ears

there must have been a dream cloud parting
and a sun shaft showed
all clear over target

no ticket for mosquito speeding
wily little bastard
more complex than anything
hands ever made

and when you're gone
I dream of you

and a will come again, again

the all-night whisper
won't know what they've said
I'm sure there must be a message

quicker than the candle
maelstrom made flesh
this all-night kamikaze
of a hundred lives

who
dives
who
dives

here's
one hand clapping
onto an ear
a deafening
from this

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  3. who dives who cares
    how is this not a soul
    how are we not here
    how can we get to another day
    quicker than the mosquito

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  4. Hey Kit, how can you value add a voice recording here? Many of us would like to share our poems spoken aloud.

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  5. and where to they go when you turn the light on?

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