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i wrote this in china last year, just found it in my journal, searching fo something else. sorry it is so late. mebbe i should put it in the thread for comment, too..?
macau ferry
I
[en route]
instincts swagger on land legs
across swaying floors
flat horizon [corrupted
by islands and distant vessels;
receding] rising now, dipping
parallelograms of solo rhythms to tonal chatter
popping like children’s bubbles
then going quiet. nodules of tilted black
tufts, paused in slumber –
vik’s new shoes matching the décor;
lucky patch an omen for
so many chinese…
from the haze grows a destination
solidifying and becoming more than
bright silly commercial incessancy in plasma
pointing at
macau.
close now, twitter and peep of hand-held
conversations, volume rising in place of steam
in the chill cabin;
and beyond, the sky – a new world
awaits recollection
II
[return]
swirling into memory singular
small white tiles and green pipes stopped
in motifs, telling exotic lies, dried catch
of moist cod; incense and wines:
swarms of scooters
cackling in gaps not there. magic buses
filling, filling, filling, filling, filling, filling until we swoop away
and gasp like eels, heels snapping clunk stepping clack…
somewhere symphonic a man prone on a ledge, arm still
reaching
into air, stocking feet, the parade
passing by…
go up now, to cold canon taking impotent aim
at construction like reality, bamboo-clad, rising
to the mists; wanting more
without a sigh, leaving kittens on a stone
sleeping as the dead under glass, excavated
and displayed, bones from flesh pressed for time
- centuries, not seconds
but a day elapsed
like tides scooping the night across a journey
begun by instinct and ends
in a dreamless, formless now |
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