Shake Rattle and Roll
Sit stubborn on your perch of heat
be still until I’m gone
my vigil won’t induce one note
toward your explosive song.
My absence sets your trigger
faint gurgling a shake
until great belches power on
a steamy shrill above the watery quake.
I’ll not come a running
because you give the nod
now YOU’LL go unheeded
I hear just my i-pod.
©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
May 5, 2012
this was written for a poetry challenge which was to write a poem about an unnamed subject and have the reader guess.
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