Tuesday 23 May 2017

ElEPhANtS iN PoRTuGAl?






"Sounds like an elephant stampede"
They burst out into our narrow white washed cobbled street.
Our prawns get cold as we both, bewildered by it all and as if from out of our skins, we watch our other “selves” battle out the feelings we have kept bottled up tight inside.
Fear, self-loathing, regrets, all squash the warmth from the air.
The bougainvillea trembles in our intermittent silences.
Like tainted blood they crawl the walls and let the skeletons of our lives seep out.
Our haunted chorus is rhythmed on the beat of that passing heard.
It will pass right?
The prawns still stare at us. They know…

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