NISI...becomes ABSOLUTE early summer falls across the lawn...the trees the bars of a cage sunlight and shadow our jailers our own good selves and we the prisoners of this summers day Shall I compare thee to.. I laugh to myself no...I guess not we forever imprisoned in sunlight and shadow an image made real memory holds us here trapped in this conceit sentenced to be who we could never be and so we sat until sunlight relinquished its hold over the world and so we sat until darkness swallowed us whole only our voices visible only our vices invisible as always each the murderer of the other now no longer man & wife I glimpse my face in a fish knife the decree nisi still tucked behind the ormolu clock the divorce still eats at my soul this piece of paper mocking me and now the decree absolute we sit down to our last supper the cat devours ( I dont tell you that ) the fresh trout the fresh trout all dressed up in its dish like a sacrifice I shoo the cat away it snarls at me Ticktock! laughs the clock ormoluly the cat looks at me with disdain...scorn licks lovingly its balls I cut the cat-chewed bit away serve up with a too rich sauce the unseen incident not noticeable and so after all I still serve you before me you smile your smile say we should have ...maybe stayed together after all..? too late now I think to recall the people we used to be we different people now Time doesnt heal..! I think ...Times a heel! I secretly smile I pass the port a crumb of Stilton still stuck charmingly upon her chin The sunlight on the garden hardens and grows cold. I quote MacNeice to the parrot We can not catch its minutes... the parrot continues and I finish ...within its nets of gold. memory still holds me prisoner in that garden I watch her taxi pull away the taxi turns the corner blinks a right turn and is gone back in the kitchen I let the cat finish my untouched trout I flambé the decrees both nisi and absolute watch us go up in smoke
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:52:02 +0000