{ “Awareness : He began to decipher the instant that he was living, deciphering as he lived it, prophesying himself in the act of deciphering the last page of the parchments, as if he were looking into a speaking mirror.” -
Gabriel Garcia Marques }

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Mirrors of Mercury

Who is Shams and who Rumi
is like asking who is fork and who knife when apart they sing not a single song
to nourish my blood with verse and love

I, mercurial reflect

Who is mirror and who reflection
Is that me ? I ask you
watching your slender bones
move in soiled leather boots
your wild slow eyes reflecting YES !
when a maiden across the room
gives a wicked laugh of NO !

I, mercurial translate

Who is this dissident beret alongside me ?
Is it me ahead on a future road .....
will someone stroke my back
give me ear, lip or cheek
urging my body to be young in
takkies and snazzy chamois jacket ?

I, mercurial question

Aah ! Poetic Mirrors !
writing reciting assessing
give respite from a million images of Self
as I circle an unveiled Flow of Fate
fully awake to naked
poet

I, mercurial observe
catalytic


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