Lamb
kin strange love, eyes closed while you're under . taking
assumes yield bonds will loop ‘n’ wrap what little you
have everything you worked for here nobody cares.
Break
format new : at the peak roll off / torso piercing cactus
sheets mat catch below; plus something in the air bag
whiffy dog custom . mud knees to declare.
Ocean gone ? risen you might wonder whose flail sink
path you could have paved; whose Help ! please blocked
by the inrush of water spotting a loose float crevice.
Gulp,
you’ll learn how sea risk rollers beach . strip . wash off
corpus confirmed salt.
Where
necks crane this for readiness : faith walls peeling, scrape!
save! till intime links start up . prime task found floor
reboarding.
With split screen touch you’ll pinch the view
of whales, word etch cap size recount . how currents toss
pack risk again boat meat.
There will be be bridge flood stallings . forest
mountains pastures humpable like camel; even skimpy
microbes won’t submit a wiggle you could camp gut
pin – all told co-sigh . sand wet wretch, Benvenuto!
Out
done, resite the sun tan server . stow away the seashells
reception.
– W.W.
LESSING
*TO AOMEN via Taiwan and Hong Kong, those
Detachments from/of China whose vigorous
Fatalism matched Lessing’s, for he found theirs
Less inscrutable than it is believed to be and
More readable than it (or his) cared to be.
His offhand ‘reading’ of ‘Chinese’ness was both
Colonistic (his refusal to accept
Any tribe's totems of ethos as final)
And mutualist (no uniqueness discrete).
Lux ex Oriente, Wisdom, The East: flags
Even ‘Orientals’ wave, kowtow to or salute,
The tribal mind ever an ass welcoming
The branding whips goading it to bray and dance
With chained hooves – which yet often kick at their fate.
(from “Charon’s Anchors” by Brian Chan, 2018)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 