Land cries out in pain shedding tears of blood for the young and old slain
Bones litter the ground like leaves
Channelling each others panic we are,
Wrecked on sweet jesus rhymes, pages on pages
Undone like shoes we stroll in jealous packs
Sounds of gunshots and screams embedded in the earth
Moans of the dying live on in the wind through the trees
she’s telling stories through the trunk
seven sisters bleeding bark
train station crime
These you don’t hear, these you don’t feel
For they were not taught you in books and school
These wasted tales, unburnt here in this avenue
Those bitumen classics, knees scabbed up
All in lines and lines
Passed on down from mouth to mouth
Old to young
From our land to our soul
We know they are true
Our spinal journeys told in comas
This cellular memory failure
For we are one with the land
We feel what it feels
And remember what it remembers
Twitching muscle jumps spasmodically, rhythmically
Like a finger plucking a double bass
Yr nails in that space again
Where the sky enters my body
Pulling my head back, i’m arching
You can’t control your life
Well to a degree you can
But a lot depends on luck, chance, fate, the will of the gods
In the floodlit sun, goddess
We soak in each other’s skin
Each naked twist n turn thick and turgid
Tall, languid long-limbed
Slips into the room
Graceful arm raises, hand lifts
One long slender finger sensually unfurls
And points
Inside you now its clear
Yr lips at my neck
I’m back in yesterday
I’m at the brink here
I’m brinking brinking
Where do we stand with each other
What do we expect
What do we want
What are we prepared to give
Rhythm up-tempo and silky
Husky sensual sexual rasp keeps the atmosphere alive
Music stroking the vibes
Like a lover caressing your arm
Thigh...
You won’t let me in
this is to intense you say
Opening the door
My fingers slide in
Suddenly it slams
Locking me out
All yr skills spent on me
Wanting me to be in that place
That afternoon moanspace
As if we ever needed anybody else
Nails scrape FLESH
SENDING SHIVERS UP AND DoWN MY SPINE
TONGUE FLICKs OUT TASTING SALTY SWEAT
HARD SoFT BODIES ENTWINE
TRYING, WANTING, BECOMING
ONE
And now I’m not the only thing in this room
In this dark light, under yr expression
It rains
I STAND ALONE
NURSING MY PAIN
CONFUSED
