Kit Kelen - solstice

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solstice

in wallaby thump

is how we tell it

we are the creatures round here

there isn't a tradition

but you will know this singing

breath

everyone looks up

to curse

after the first great heat

the fear of mosquitoes

is more than they are

yesterday was

45 to 27

in two hours

I took refuge in the mall

'it is what it is' - I took refuge there

in my wallet was the plastic

there was aircon

I took refuge in the car

later it dropped to 24

and now

not hard to get into the water

still 30

but I see every grape is gone

and they were almost there

what bird shat that?

heart black to revenge

mind, speech and body

hum, ah, aum

innumerable jewels!

everything's feathered with the rain

ants said that it was so

a dog along the barking road

I know the heat will come again

cicadas are again foretelling

I will take refuge in the aircon car

I will take refuge in the mall

I will spend up big

now rain shone

jewelled

I have a bottle for tonight

bought with good clean gold

one cannot help but wishing Christmas

nor I

nor it

will come again

least of frogs

is a window affixed

so we're the other world

how rude

this pale flesh shows

a brief

a brief

good

night