From: Fitzroy
Category: Other stuff
Date: 05 February 2002
Open-armed
it ushered us in
and spread out for us its table
thick and warm and pungent
lapping light and lustre
round us, regaling, pie-eyed
passion shimmered
like the sun on lilting sea.
Then the undercurrent
swung in
chopping at us, hacking
our legs - on the beach
they couldn’t see us falling
sucked like sand
still smiling almost!
But draining away,
bleeding from the land.
Now headshaking city
sighs seeing two torn
Twisted delirious like shot deer
conscripted in confusion
to shudder
and pant flailing
for air
suddenly everywhere
unbreathable.
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