Tuesday 25 April 2017

ALLUVIA ON THE SHORE (for Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy and after Sudarsan Pattnaick’s sand sculpture)

Archeology is far from the reach of my branching intellects but I know
how we created these marching molecules, this mob of liquid, this
continent of water.  I know that its creation followed the logic of addition.
A lone drop of greed was longing for fellowship with a scorching hope
when I volunteered a drop of lie, you followed suit and dropped leeching
impoverishment with generousity, the way he contributed the supersonic semen
of rape. By this, a drop grew into a trickling river, a flood that extorts
homes from owners just as insurrection that snatches authority from
Governments, they philanthroped by giving that, and it raced round the globe
like Firefox. We dropped dreaded discrimination and all matured into
a sour sea of anger, into raw war, world’s whore.

Now, let’s do the BODMAS of our ruins
without syntax errors.

= we are the alluvia of our misdeeds,
washed ashore by them and lying prone as ashamed statues,
noon sun is a scorching sincerity to our sights, and the fluorescence
of the night moon haunts us. Even stars, the fluorescent-fishes
of heaven’s ocean denude our shame.

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