DUSTY POET
donkey ungroomed doomed a wicked whirlwind
grains of wisdom wrinkle sand, dust devitalise
L a n d
here there everywhere _______ nowhere
in eyes, on kitchen table
parched lips pouting, tears tormented fell
drying …
dry gin in glass ghosted verbs, adjectives metaphors, s o n n e t s
a rake on untended farm stood patient
soft sobbing sorrel soil insipid stood
debts piled manic manure mounting
scalp itched his wordy craft crumbling
haikus, verses, vignettes spotted louder
than waiting w i l l o w s
white hair falling, skin f l a k e d
he failed to vision journal, his altar dismantled
an ODE to rip from protruding ribs
too much unsaid, torrents tortured gestate
epics waiting to birth cannot speak nor write
cannot read nor recite
dusty throat bone dry, doleful a fugue lay
faraway in another land, a wooden room
in her fist tight, his voice she secretly held
l e f t his heartfelt poems on dilapidated shelf parcelled with cracked crockery ________
her scribbles on a sheet of toilet tissue he flushed away with dried beetles ~
hens cackled unfed, goats roamed untended
fish-moths party under Victorian linen bled
dust on books, pamphlets, photographs
letters speaking to women dead - - -
Pablo Neruda winked from a harbour along with broken spectacles
his shattered mind broke open
alliteration absent without leave
poetry unspoken fell like beads from silent noose
around neck oozing sweat
an escape beckoning
where to, where from, how long…?
a one-eyed pond with geese watched their
Dusty Poet with his wreaths of unraveled poetry writhing
water lilies fading, dragonflies floating with dust
a buried diary and on farm to be found
skull
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