poetry – Page 139 – poems 2 die for

EXEUNT

HERELIES (SIC)

HOLE

HOLE

INTERPLAY

Problematize!

let’s
test each other

try out this space

explore
what possibilities

what connection is
possible
what radical diffetence
in trajectory

what common
separate meanings we
attach to
words here

how play of difference
                      becomes
true
    interplay
all              the way.

STORM

the windows rattle
it is a slight storm

the windows
melt

it is
a nuclear showdown

thousands of years
millions perhaps
into the future

our descendants (much
altered) or
another species
must decide
(after finding the
bits and pieces
putting them
together)

what hatred brought
these two antagonists
to, as matter of
security and
deep principle,
uncontrollable hatred,
impossible fear

to equalise everything
in mutual suicide

windows melting
across the whole globe

WHARF

they looked like palaces
going up across
the river

which river can tell you
things best and worst
to which
it has
borne witness
the clammy, giddy
moments of rise
equally
nightmare falls

Ah, as you stated fascinated
at a beckoning future
hoping to be part of,
fit in with, mesh
with those gears

not certain yet, however,
this a force for expansion,
empowering creation

or a darker, deeper
thing
thing more instinctual

a trajectory on which,
at the end of the day will
trade
all our everything

nothing beyond the
possibilities of trade

LINE

I have a
ghost writer
in
my machine

have a
ghost writer
that is
my machine

inserting itself
between
me
and
my desire

subject
and text

when that
voice
whispers
what
must be and

so
what is

what hope do
I hold of
not walking that line.

IN PARTICULAR

I am
a part of everything

we all are
and I am a
small, small
part
you might call
a “particle”

though
like light you
might find

I am
my own duality

this thought washing
through my head

as if
it were a wave.

MECHANISM

seems
like a no-brainer

poet is
predator
poem
is prey

no brainer
of no brainers

unless
as poet

stepping in
for the kill

poem is waiting
camouflaged
ambush reptile

hitting you
first strike
huge
toxic
shot

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