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"The Hummingbird Cake" The day started bright - Bright Eggshell Blue and ended in percussion dark and cloudy stormed in thunder pummelled drums against a backdrop of bruised eggshell dijon yellow sweating heavy sage green spitting spoilt the swollen pride of purple, a wet abrasion against Electric Blue crackling along her lips like Lightening Sizzled on her bitumen her mind winked at you... Splits two into one not three Taken slowly deliberately cake digested swallowed like swallows nibbling freely on air a symphony of do you see me in a Hummingbird storm stairs to you she stares upwards forever upwards at lines of ebony tied tight words kick and spit like a cat in heat caught up in a hessian sack words in a puzzle shaken and caste on a playing board pure white not black She, Third person, always Third person, listens to her own heart and then listens to the words you have put on and slowly worn warm Revisits in her evening a conversation with an old friend Lorikeets on the balcony Passionfruit cake and their beaks in honey a day in the life of Mosman Carmen the dancer Blueberries and Raspberry Banana Bread and Gold Crested Pterodactyl Cockatoos commandeering her kitchen her gangster lovers dead ends and loose screws The day started bright blue Ended in a thunder clap boiling over onto a glowing hotplate of flying embers, reckless kisses and an unplanned Storm; A piece of Hummingbird Cake was fed through a thread In dreams while you watched a movie in bed Spoken to you through mind cerebral not Reality read Poppyseed and Honey Bees buzzing on swollen unheard lips that silently bled Red Words Meanings Life Read Red Sugar ingested, Honey to Blue Horse Flies. Australiana Fed. Sleep, Bed. (LadyLabyrinth/2019) "Listen to the Hummingbird" / Leonard Cohen https://youtu.be/hYIeW8bwlWQ "Meadow" / Liam Gallagher https://youtu.be/wHVuW7eOPNI "Cosmic Dancer" / T.Rex https://youtu.be/GMfjA4gyEcU "Meadow" / Liam Gallagher, Lyrics https://genius.com/Liam-gallagher-meadow-lyrics
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