Fragments from Hinterland.Poem.Robin Ouzman Hislop

i.

Morning brings the gull’s squall, surreal beyond the curtained windows, starting faint dawn’s debate flighting harsh and sweet.

ii.

The trees are ivy clad in a laurel bay, like a galleon’s mast & rigging sunk to the bottom of the sea.

iii.

Somewhere in the secret paths of a sun lit wood a plastic bag spews forth its innards of rags like a desecrated corpse staining the elfin fern with a black sin.

iv.

How the midges dance and in a blink gone again!

v.

Returning to roots, a garden of forked paths, a strangler in Eden, cobwebbed her face spun the spell of lechery.

vi.

Day and night tremble on the morning and evening star.

vii.

Cast me your mantle dried on a sunbeam, some hours ago it ceased to be the longest day, summer’s musk makes my heart heavy, my head giddy.

viii.

The hill moves on, a slumbering breast of cloud blooded in night’s music on no breath of breeze.

ix.

Crepe clouds smear folds of scarlet flesh, plume a three cornered hat, pistols bloom black roses. Lady highwayman riding a sky of blood disappears, as creation eschews & the moon pursues.

ROH 2000

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