.........
look up! -
City lights swallowed
by giant earth-eating storm:
trees dance, drunk with wind;
music stops, all eyes on winged-Leopard.
too late - rush for safety
as Leopard sweeps paws across Park,
uprooting reality, snapping Friday night:
breaking glass, ancient roots torn,
tangled webs, galaxies of debris,
rain like buckshot, angry hissing wisps.
Leopard swirls across City
inhales power lines,
one street after another
darkening dominoes;
café patrons sip wine
in candle-glow, dreaming.
no magic spells, no rattle-bones;
a Leopard uncaged is free
to roam the Universe
just get
- out -
of the way.
(neckbone, 2009)
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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