We try to tell them
but their ears are blocked
with the cotton wool of consumer dreams,
their children and their children’s children forgotten.
Images of a drowned tropical village flicker across the plasma screen.
Sodden walls and tumbled chimneys
strive vainly to keep above the rising tropical sea.
A child’s thin awkward naked body,
drifts past face down on an uncaring oily […]
Filed under: Daniel N. Poitras, Uncategorized by akublik Date 8 March, 2010
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We fly home from summerwith Che t-shirts and tans.As we leave the airportJanuary rasps in our ears.
The frosted taxi window numbs un-mittened fingersas we try to scratch back to yesterday.Already the afternoon is slippinginto something black and dangerous.I’m forgetting the sky’s largesse and howturquoise seas clear a congested heart.
In the middle of the nightmetal teeth […]
Filed under: Joan Crate, Home & Away, Uncategorized by akublik Date 28 November, 2009
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