ancestors were onto something
or on something
one way
cul de sac
unrolling or creeping
the surprise of mistaken
identity
rude not to notice or
to kill them again
who took
who gave their lives
who furnished nation
who in a thankless nation
someone’s darling
served a cold dish
did not deserve
horror mainly
dig them up now see
who’s horrified
whose disease
we surpass
whose disease is
if you could only open up
your mouth not talk
in bird sounds
and visiting me again, is it a
surprise I cannot reconstruct
the agony ate you up
you follow me now. Beasts
of religion or
what is
belief no hope no agony
must be the right word
and contest life
over death on.
Conscious is over your shoulder
not standing.
It lies about
where you are, cloud
in the upper atmosphere
unrolls, creeping
things are the impulses
you have and hold and
have
hold, You strike out
in dreams.
alone. play your many pipes
play and dance and sing
in birdsong if it has to be
you
did not kill
or stole
are not a man
planted your seed not
in the carcase
your sin in the hill.
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“you are only the living face of those who have gone before”
— 20 August 2022
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22 August 2022
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