On the quick reform
from human to beast it is
important to kill
only for food if
you don't want to get sicker,
go rogue, surreal,
end up bad, hunted,
chased into a corner, treed
snarling and spitting.
Kittens always mean business, thoroughly sincere, important business, and they are most certainly dangerous and fierce. They are especially so when going up against stupid puppies.
Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.
Mechanical designer for industry, now retired, once a Bay Area Hippie, went undercover in 1972, I've been writing poetry for years.
Contact: 3topper45@gmail.com
love the poem, chris, (thats a great set of images, btw) and the photo. those kittens mean business.
ReplyDeleteKittens always mean business, thoroughly sincere, important business, and they are most certainly dangerous and fierce. They are especially so when going up against stupid puppies.
ReplyDeleteThe wise dog knows this instinctively. The unwise dog learns it the hard way, if ever.
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