Coral Hull: Poetry: Reed-Song: Early Poems: Volume 4: Scream II

I MACKENZIE KNIGHT I A CHILD OF WRATH A GOD OF LOVE I FALLEN ANGELS EXPOSED I

CORAL HULL: REED-SONG: EARLY POEMS: VOL 4
                                                                                                              page-224 Scream II

Sometimes the scream is muffled & cold/ like
The deep ocean glow in the heart of a jellyfish/
At other times it is clear & icy/ like the
Aztec crystal skull that froze to screaming/
Bringing death to archeologists that held it
For its mystery/ the scream is like this/ it
Is the scream of palaeontological millennia/
The high pitched frequency of cyclic solar
Systems/ it is conscious recognition of stars
Too far away for warmth/ an infant's fear of
The dark/ I hide in blankets of my youth/
Crying out: mum I want a drink of water/ I
Am thirsty every night/ this is the scream/
I am an adolescent raped by my lover/ this is
The scream/ I am adult/ my blood in heifers
Lead to the slaughter/ this is the scream/
The red in the flag of the koorie culture/
This is the scream/ it is old/ it inhabits
My lungs/ it works its way up through me
From the roots of deep ecology/ it blows
Out into darkness that deadens it/ like a
Torch shone into the sky & lost before the moon/
& who is there to hear it/ my lips are parched/
who will offer my sustenance/ on a dying sphere
where the rivers have syphilis/ there are
forests that scream louder than the chainsaw/
there are screaming children behind closed
doors/ the monkeys in the clutches of mad
vivisectors/ of ambulance sirens that pound
down streets to a pulse that grows fainter/ I
can hear a scream of wind through the wood of
the coffin/ of frozen air stinging the birth
soaked lungs/ who will listen/ christians wont
listen/ & the buddhists are calmly being
enlightened/ you can scream at police/ bashing
protestors for peace/ you can scream at the
kids & the barking of dogs/ the pagans have
hidden their scream in the caves/ & a scream
continues in the lungs of agnostics/ into
unanswering space

    

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