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Isolated objects (roadside incident)
Thought I was laying in my garden
with my hands deep in soil
but I was there on an island
shooting flares at Your boat---Nathan Willett
Broken across the back of once heralded halos
out in the open fields
tires burnin' dark
paste the flesh orange
ripping it up again
another black stain on history
passed through our hands
tattooed on their backs
and where have their windows
with rocks in every corner
brought home
I don't know
For the curtain is shut
optimistic and sure we are
original
dancing shadows
to rumor mill
swinging silencers
...and You just stand there gawking
with one flat tire
Published 29th Jan 2020
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29th Jan 2020 6:33pm
Your choice of metaphors is striking, as each brings across that sense of societal and systemic disparity. It has a vivid quality counterpointing it's sensitivity that is well rendered. Good work brother.
30th Jan 2020 12:43pm
Appreciate You coming by Daniel :)
Cryptic, which I had hoped not to be...sigh...just comes out such at times
Cryptic, which I had hoped not to be...sigh...just comes out such at times
1st Feb 2020 2:13am
Author intent is an intangible brother. We project ourselves into our interpretation. I made my therapist laugh earlier when I said, I've been doing online tarot lately. It's so beautifully vague, it's a perfect neutral ground to project your hopes and fears into. I feel like art serves that purpose. Serves as a mirror. You look at the painting The Scream with it's dystopian landscape and twisted visage, but the horror you witness comes from within, your own concept of it, projected.
30th Jan 2020 7:19pm
So at first The Dark Tower by Stephen King came to mind, then the movies by Hitchcock. Finally with the ending, “One Headlight” by the Wallflowers.
Tight write!
Tight write!
30th Jan 2020 10:39pm
And you just stand there gawking
With one flat tyre...
I wonder if they'll ever realise that all they did was gawk
With one flat tyre...
I wonder if they'll ever realise that all they did was gawk
3rd Feb 2020 1:31pm
Do they ...I really doubt it lol
Great to see You-Thanks for visiting me old Friend!!!
Great to see You-Thanks for visiting me old Friend!!!
