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Richard Hillman

 

For JvS

what is explicit is not so much
the words for suffering, the cold canvas clubs
and grasslander eyes in the sand fresh swarm
of flies descending on the open wound
we invent the cure for the common incident
recall the origin and its offering
slowly waiting for the car at the airport
before the mind arrives  -  "must go"  -
the chairs we stacked are against
the wall; returning to the installation
of years, the dynamite of centuries
and have turned half-blind to read
from the shelves of the university library
only to find the pages torn and the yellow
thread of foxprints following our dogged
footsteps through a labyrinth of lies
and official jargon for that plane free-falling
towards Lockhart River and the snow mobile
in lock-up just doesn't fit the paradox
PARADISE ONLY COMES ONCE
before the doctor takes us screaming
from the womb legs kicking at anything
and everything changes from here

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