Friday 16 February 2024

Poem (18): Wrath


 Wrath

You sleep beneath a bivouac with nothing else

but tins of beans and worms of words like carbon, like

dioxide, sank into the bracken, listening for

the woken Kraken on your not-yet-broken back.

 

From somewhere near the cerebellum, ghosts of choirs

of fallen states sing resurrection vigils while

the wind spins mountains round the bend of history, till

your fears of futures unknown sink into the soil.

 

You call across another valley where was lost

a plan for boundaries, where was found a sound to dull

the shock explosion of aeonian progress, locked

and loaded in the flow of freedom and its will.

 

The right side of the loch is lapped in blood red swarms

of agitating midges, darkening flint and tints

of tingling scree – and now, you cannot rest to send

a message of remembrance to the enraged expanse.

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