Kit Kelen #1001 - to country

1001

to country

and after all the wrong 

 a welcome 

the country is

where it is

was

will be

(well, in an age beyond us shifts

so science says

and that’s how we know

who and how long)

someone once paddled

(everyone actually

came on a boat

except first

someone swam)

it’s as if you can’t undo the country

a bad taste now and then

flood drought and ice again

creatures larger than life go

somebody sails past

and make ourselves at home

after all the theft

this giving

someone has welcomed me

here to my place

(I say mine

but I acknowledge

the others before

hands of the making

spirits still with us)

to those who’ve come

who take

you’re welcome

after the blinding

our skins are these

tongue tangles up

and gods go with

things traditional

and tribe, say nation

bring back words that are gone

to be welcome

all objects are the least

of dreaming

come cliché come!

sit up to beg

or have it your own way home

boomerang

walkabout

(some secret writing

sacred to the paint

say sunshine)

all are welcome to

along a track

old fashioned

where pals

someone with a little spear

is frozen to the neatest lawn

can’t live in a house

turn us all into desert

the voices!

(it’s as if all

were possessed)

those voices

are with us

but not our forever

someone has to live on a coin

the beard can barely fit

and you’re remembering now, aren’t you?

I see it in your eyes you see

after the wrong

and will we forgive?

it’s echo

I am

to be here

you’re my treasure

we are in the heart again

let me hold you

after the evil

a smoking

(let me bot one off you brother

a dollar won’t get me away, not this time

just a swig in the park)

after the wars we won’t mention

there is a little matter of facts

(here and how and who and why

and all because)

who built the gaol?

and who’s it for?

say police

and you must mean

how history inhabits

truth works upon us strangely

like habits

after all the wrong

a welcome

inviting me in or what?

I could murder a cup of tea

don’t worry

right now

as I live and breathe

and as we speak

I’m working on a thanks