Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Kit Kelen #626 - word in edgewise



626
word in edgewise

bee loud glade
and fire in head

in the everyday
hard to get a word in
all between the traffic run

it's the already said
the old familiar
here's Prolix the Tautology

white noise rafting in your head
here's all the queue – a journey's worth

birds follow like a trail of
not-to-follow crumbs

we're moonlit
shone in the stones
needy

you have to really mean it
just a word in your ear
sometimes made map

you say
outside again
shouting through machine roar
double glazing

but after, the left out's
what most comes to mind

as in you'd meant to say
all hum
and that's the city
it's like light rounding
all says home
it's automatic speech

you rise to what
becomes a challenge

you have to get away

track was first for that
and nose before paws fell to it
just to drum on the roof of hell

take careful steps
as if you might tread on someone

as into a question mark curled

come to a clearing in the forest
in words alone
I'm the rhythm come

you'll have to dream to here
you know it

we've all met before
and here
sigh for a silence sometimes

I can hear them listening
those smaller than I can see

no one interrupts

3 comments:

  1. Sure. Moving away. Coming closer. A neat trick.

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  2. If I lie down in that question mark, will I hear the tree falling?

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