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mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

0 posted 2001-03-18 01:55 AM

cairn

I have crawled out of this hole in the ground.
Here you see it. And I pause on this rock,
old, scarred, and stained.
And I still taste the rotting smell
of unearthed things down there. It's true.
And because I have no hands to do much else,
I stumped alone, leaving this red trail
that leads back down. That too.

Yes, but,
I dug this hole myself, with a stake
held firmly in my teeth.
And though it is a stinking space
cut in the earth, and could be more big,
it has a cairn of stinking mud which I made
to mark its place.
You may look if you like.
And its gets warm the further down you dig.

As for here, well,
the air sometimes grows sluggish and cold,
sometimes stops.
And many snakes have I pulled from my head
to speak to you this way.
And the sky is dull and flat as frost on glass.
But I am on friendly ground here,
and clothed in my afterbirth,
and near the steaming foul breath
of unearthed earth,
I am well enough.

Now,
as they say there is but one way to go,
I think that I will build this cairn
to a tower of mud up to the sky,
to birds and clouds and rainbows and such.
And in the sun it will lose its stink and dry.
And here, to the lee, will be its shadow,
a reflection of me.
There is no need to be humble, I think.

For as I look down at this hole in the ground,
black and cold, I feel some small joy.
The earth embraced me with its civil tongue
and insistently lapped me awake.
And with the prod of rising civility
released me in my peripheral winter.

So that now, I am invisible, to be
silently touching sight,
seeing what light I may see,
and impatiently step on sleeping death.
Me.

copyright 2001

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

1 posted 2001-03-18 06:22 PM

I love this and I love cairns! Build it with love and hope and thy wish will be granted!
Great read - thanks hon

Isis

*War produces one thing - Cemetaries. And in cemetaries there are no enemies!*
~Isis~~Sovereign of the Spirit.

[This message has been edited by Isis (edited 03-18-2001).]

Swamp¤Faeryie
Member

since 2000-12-04

Posts 393
fairyland....of course;)

2 posted 2001-03-19 02:06 PM

wow this was cool. It's truely dark,i loved your images and slighty dreaming effect,this to me says genius!! AMzing peice of work,you are deffinately going to my library!! wow!!

swamp

much madness is divinest sense,and much sense the starkest madness~Emily Dickinson

mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

3 posted 2001-03-20 12:44 PM

Isis -- thank you. I like them too. There is just something about them.

Swamp -- thank you also. I've never been collected before. Or been a genius. I'll take them both as compliments.

[This message has been edited by mirror man (edited 03-20-2001).]

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