I see it as a four frame comic strip - with a sense of sadness overleaf.
Thanks for that. Andrew
On 25 September 2013 13:17, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Fault-Line
>
> There's a man in the park
> with metal objects in his hands,
>
> addressing the trees and us:
> Listen, there's a fault-line up there
>
> (gesturing to the clouds) - it runs
> from here to San Francisco.
>
> It's been there thousands of years.
> I'll give you the email you need -
>
> (something) hotmail dot com.
> Any day it's going to - but the dog
>
> and I have walked out of earshot.
> I glance back - he's on his knees.
>
> Maybe that other guy is paying
> attention - or with him, even.
>
> The prophet strikes me as cut-off,
> liable to erupt - apocalyptic.
>
> Any day the fault-line may open
> over him, swallow him up. Us up?
>
> He warned us, he told us so.
> And I won't have emailed
>
> for the lowdown hotmail info.
> The old trees near him once shed
>
> huge limbs, the lesions unhealed
> gape alert like giant ears.
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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