A Hippopatamus and a Rhinoceros Go into a Daydream

A Hippopatamus and a Rhinoceros Go into a Daydream

A Poem by Hawkmoon

Columns of moonlight billowing from an open wound;
a ring of gold 
like silence, waiting on the cusp of the greenhouse
where the sun has drawn a shadow around the circle of
the human eye; 
ten Saints have translated the beginning of the book 
from a puzzle that hides in the trees,
where there are strange languages that have yetr to be discovered; 
maroon lunacies
and a periwinkle phantasm that contains only the white light of the lost 
those whose lives 
never arrived
but lurked on the edge of their flesh 
like a wave trapped between crest and trough 
when the civilizations are advancing 
in random numbers and diadems of consciousness,
the paint by number dream trhat races from eye to eye 
in an eerie
surprise of worldess superstitions.
Sge us European, Asian, born nowhere, draped like a veil across an 
open face, waiting to be born where the centuries condense,
resting in a strange bed, like a bird that has no where to fly,
but calles the skeleton a nest: 
A Zebra meteors through the daydream: revealing ten thousand possibilities.
the advent of a zoologoical tapestry, some symphonic blurring of harmonies
between the hippopatamus and the rhinoceros
a strange geometry of god- fire, 
containing ten million ideas that cannot find an entrance, 
but  that wander through the world on a whirlwind of atoms,
every thought as unreal as the next

© 2013 Hawkmoon


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axon to dendrite , axon to dendrite ... the space between , mutliplexed , chemical reactions begats a electron flow , chaos - teetering on the initial response ... the loom the weaver , the dream the believer ... axon to dendrite the door opens ...

Posted 11 Years Ago


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apart from a few typos, this is a wonderfully lucid piece of writing!
thanks for sharing

Posted 11 Years Ago



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