Sunday, January 7, 2018

Magdalena Ball #2 This Old Land responding to Dominique Hecq #1 Mood


This old land

this is the jetstream that bites
a forgotten pull that cuts through sound

approaching via the window of a plane
is not the same as going back

home is abstraction, it’s no place, a nausea
vibrates the muscles, talks in code

raised hairs, whispers against strained neurons
inarticulate, hungry

moves back to photographs
creates stories over wine, in the car, when no one

is listening, as interior voice, safe in obscurity
poetry no one is reading

breaks into a thousand dust motes
the eyes sting from the colours – refracted turquoise

watercolour green, a prayer to God the Vacant
stuttered out like the confession of bad dreams

in spite of the polygram that compels me
beeps as I walk through, taking off my jewels

a necklace of words and lies, desire the taste
of exile, returning to a place I never knew

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