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Shorter Thoughts

Death – what is it?

Is it a song sang as a quivering question to summon answers from scared spirits? Listen carefully: feel the frightened

Thoughts

Of mute drums and snarling sheep Of thunder in tummies and cowing ears Of coiled thoughts and happy fists Of

Violence

How it is that, in the quantum tango we call life, Mercy can tackle and mock Cruelty’s efforts to entangle,

Mum

What do I remember? Slippery certainty, and the solidity of a suckle on a teat; a slap to snap my

Grandmother

What makes me wonder? My grandmother, Africa a fleeting fragment of faith in a memory in full flight; a summoning

Violence II

What makes me wonder? How, in peering deep into Deep Time, we tiptoe on the wings of escaped light, into

Prison

What makes me wonder? How we are all doomed by the freedom of imprisonment: Tightly tethered on a lonely blue

Mountains

What makes me wonder? The Mountains – all dressed up with nowhere to go. Their smooth velvet shoulders and curved

Tele

What makes me wonder? ‘Tele, do you sometimes fear the future? ‘Dad, I don’t fear the future; the future should

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