blind alleys

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myth like mystery

the myth is dead holes into my skin

my skein of wind my broken earth

my sunken hearth

and this heap this sacred mass of

things too many

too much too smart

too vulgar

this consumption

smothering blankets

stifling stories of the cold naked straw

deserting frozen-fingered children

playing foul fairies

miss the myth miss the tree


tell tell tell the tale of

infinite life

of loss and eternal blood

and I took three fishes from *Darwin' s nightmare

rode the night' s hammering void and the dark mare

and I took a fish from Magritte

s/ he' s rising to the sky

and I shook the past in Athos

tore time apart

I walked

around the pit

around the myth

in blind alleys

falling

sunsquare

in the world's prisons

darts

through the tomb

it does


*It refers to Hubert Sauper' s documentary film Darwin' s Nightmare. You can watch it on Youtube as well as Marie monique Robin' s The World according to Monsanto. I posted a story about it in Vivre libre.



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