The soul alone on the Island

 

The Stone shack – alone austere

Birth simply happens

An almost non-event

As too is death

 

Equilibrium is as it does

Moss silently listens

Men’s blood is black

The children – know

 

The air breathed is rock

Cementing each – and – every – action.

Nothing is valueless

Everything is indivisible

 

Walking along this horizon

To a backward infinity

A thousand slated rectangles

Mirroring the light –

 

Days are as ripe as seams

Ever-expanding –

The girls dream of strawberries

And Keats wanting Lawrence

 

Boys dream of Zanzibar

Fulfilling their fathers boots

Whisky whistles a merry tune

From dusk into timeless night

 

Dark tales shared across raucous  

Laughter, horror, fear, wit, and wantonness

Then tomorrows Tells

Remind the men like a wife reminding

 

These aurora borealis 

Mystical majesty

As they in their youths blood

Know their destiny but may not understand