Sudden shaft of
sunlight breaks
Through inkwell of
night
Where shadow and
light
Vie on the opening
page
Of a script waiting
to be written
Conjugated now
You poise
centre-stage
Curled like a comma
Lime-lit in the
amniotic dark
Ready to burst
through blood
And blindly cry out
A living raw
exclamation-mark
(2001)
I don’t recall any
specific inspiration for this. I think it may be one of those that came out of
nowhere.
All things considered,
most of us lucky enough to be born in the affluent West and Europe
have pretty good lives. There are too many places in the world where life still
begins with a question-mark.
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