Flam 33

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 · 5 years ago

  

Poems by Kieren 

 
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"scared to wake" 

And scared to wake  
    from childhood dreams 
    we built imaginations 
    from what we had seen 
    then moved away 
    to some place free 
    across the mountains 
    to the eastern sea 
    to the halls of learning 
    physics, astronomy, and maths 
    to office buildings of towering glass. 

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"unimpressed day" 

on this unimpressed day 
whose nights seem like all others 
monotonous and slow 
but nearly over 
as the sky lightens 
outside the window 
and you will know it is morning 
when the seagulls begin to perch 
tapping with beak and wing 
the plasticky window pane of glass 
and almost soon 
the sun will rise 
as you examine 
the empty coffee pot 
and the loud hissing 
of steam from beside the stove 
and roll over again 
with your eyes firmly closed 

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she moves through the fair  
and it seems darker there  
in the corner where she stood  
where the air's grown colder  
and there lingers  
the fragrance of death  
across the carnival rides  
and merry go rounds  
her face becomes a vision  
that will someday reappear  
in the photographs i took  
of the corner where she stood  
and i will remember her  
the little lonely girl  
that moved through the fair  

 
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the end.