We find ourselves in alleys,
the underpasses of our lives,
the places we cross through.
Where the cities don't reach.
Where the highrises and cultural centres
and shopping concourses aren't.
The backsides of houses,
in the litter that collects in the tunnels.
Scraps of memories, fragments of thoughts.
I thought I found you on Cherry Beach
in sand like a dune twisted with flecks,
the edge of the water littered with overflow,
scraps, what's thrown overboard,
what washes up on the shore from
other shores winnowed by the waves.
Did I romanticize you?
I don't think so.
I saw your depths,
the broken double helixes,
the places where you re-thread
your thoughts again and again.
Where we replay
what was, what never was.
I want to blank out the obsessional
complusive areas of my brain. To be
free.
We are incomprehensible to ourselves.
Beneath the flow of this constructed city,
soil, silt, rock, caverns of water,
the earth turning on its axis of magma,
the flow of a volatile consciousness.
Beneath the clutter, the mélange
the edges of our lives,
tumbling,
beneath.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
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