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but here are three for now ...

EGYPTIAN CAT.

My coat - had I been stroked -
Would glow like smooth orange silk,
But my life has known the street’s hard caress
Since I left my mother’s milk.
This Cairo is a grindstone of cats.
It eats the flesh between my bones.
My shoulder blades are sharp to touch.
My worn paws are like four stones;

Yet I am proud and lucky though stricken,
For I live at the door of a shop selling chicken,
And beyond the streets, the Sahara is my litter.
Beaten by want if not by rod,
The two-paws revere me though I am used,
For in ancient times I was their God.

Copyright © Jason Horsler
01/04/02

ULURU.

Two mighty ancient mountain peaks
Once stood where now is desert plain,
And posed in the sun and heaven swept snow;
Their primeval flanks glistening with rain.
They boasted long and flexed their mass
And taunted the sky and weather.
Said the taller one to the one in lee,
“we will stand together forever.
Let us tease the stream between us
And rend the clouds so fat and grey.”
Yet time flew by like a rushing river
Of stone hungry water until today,
Only the skull of the lee mount remains,
Of the other one, there’s naught but the plains.

Copyright © Jason Horsler
09/02/02

STILL LIVE.

It’s an abandoned bowl and chosen vase,
Carefully arranged in another time,
With old apples like large red walnuts
And grapes now raisins on the vine,
The healthy green of penicillin lemons
And black banana gorilla fingers;
Long lost in the corner of the artist’s attention
And over it all a fruit fly lingers,
Still seeing art,
Still live.

Copyright © Jason Horsler
14/02/03

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