Parallel Poems

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: July 2016

Otata 8

sanctuary light

my shadow settles back

into itself

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noumenal night . . .

a new moon obsesses

all over me

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grave matter –

echoes of Prague

thunder by

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Bastille Day –

a storm front blasts in

from Antarctica

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changeling child

true blood of my blood

full of night

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all at sea

a wind-tossed path

laid bare

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gathering storm

we birds keep singing

until we wake

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the silence

before and after

this silence

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each breath

left justified

in the air

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frost-fresh

the air still to be

breathed into

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filtered light –

yes! I can hardly bear

this world's beauty

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Otata 8

clouds there

moon-gouged into

the night

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watch vague images

weave the act of creation

from a formless fog . . .

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she died

eels slipping through

a grasp

of words

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in this 'now'

tourists tailgating

wind's cortege

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Otata 8

you are here

where light

ends

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listening

into word-

lessness

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in being

these words

with your voice

are my flesh

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in so few

words dance beyond

the horizon

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mimicking the master

the monkey

in his mind

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moonlit chill –

rock-pocked reflection

of spent passion

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unbroken grey

every nook and cranny

lost to me

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on window fog

I trace the physiognomy

of darkness

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dusk-light still

everything in flow

and ever-go

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manuka bush

air rattles scent-rich

in night's becoming

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dead low water

and then my genome

pulls me back

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in luca

the dying light

of an acronym

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winter rain –

as flies to wanton boys

a monarch's fall

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look at me!

feel me put my words

in your mouth

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awake before dawn

a distant gull verifies

that I'm still here