Billy Marshall Stoneking Sydney AUS/ Born USA |
Avoiding Darkness for Christina Conrad There is a desert in every heart which cannot be crossed for fear there is no end No shade No resting place Striving to avoid darkness I make a slave-dance of freedom-toeing the air midst angels (Is that laughter in their wings, or merely a semblance of weeping?) I stumble before Deaths fiddle How many hands have traced the face of treachery, Desire tangled in a coverlet of night? Each Year, the dead draw nearer, I am known to those who have gone before: surely, those who follow will not be strangers The nudge of invisibility breeds small comfort in the idleness of years I camp with ghosts, chant endlessly of the lost - an ever-changing vanishing point beyond the ceremony of hope Caught (a found poem) Wellington , dec 10- Police here are seeking a person who placed three steel spikes pointing upwards on the judge's chair in Wellington supreme court when Mr Justice O'Reagan resumed a sitting after lunch the needles pierced him but did not cause serious injury the chair was later checked for fingerprints Dear Dad hope this letter finds you and the family in the very best of health as it leaves me the same here in prison at Alice Springs,, well dad would you bring me some money because I need it real bad,, I've got only a few weeks to go,, I'll be out on the 6/10 this year,, dad if you won't bring me some money you won't ever see me again I am going to stay in another place,, so please dad send some money o.k then I'll come back soon as you send me some money please dad send me some,, I'll be back soon in a taxi,, dad I told you to bring me some money for me,, that was when you visited but I am still waiting for you to come back and bring me some more money if not I won't come back home true,, well dad I've got nothing more to say all I am hoping for is for money and dad may god bless you and the family down there goodbye, |
Copyright Billy Marshall Stoneking 2001 published with poets permission |
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