Poetry — October 8, 2012 15:30 — 0 Comments
A Shade of Black – Courtney Hitson
Black like batting eyelashes. As if a black squandering of itself. Stampedes of spiders. Black like a blur of relief. An undulating black behind pursed lips. As if needing psychiatric quarantine. A dissipating black. As if black fur riding currents of wind. A disturbance as the sung chorus of a cult. Disorientation of black. As if the surfacing potential of my cruelty. As if a stranger cupping a shoulder. A black unsettling as a swarm. As if the horror of a blameless torture. Inadequate black brush strokes. As if the swaying black space between my fractured selves. As if to paint the pull of magnets. A black evidencing the abyssal gravity.
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney