Gathering
Place Poets
LAILA
BIERGANS
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Vigil
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Seizing power in the
fortress of knives and forks
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recanting old tales of
pregnant storks
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Eternal, frigid mothers
gather in great force
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Praying when served oyster
sauce
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Heard from their wombs
absurd children's outcry
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Expelled from dreams
imagery into bastard consciousness
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Candles burning low in
velveret sacristy
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On success' high plateau
: bogus men in harness
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In melancholy's jaundiced
heath
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Vermin multiply from
nothingness
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A child holds lonely
vigil at reason's wreath
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Old and weary too soon,
mistrusting a mother's caress.
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Mother's still pregnant
with vital lies
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In church rituals :
matters of indifference
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Parental hubris shattered
in a child's eye
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Dwarfed by the world
as judged by infantile diffidence
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Fallen from grace, heroes
are buried in haste
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Fearful mothers crouch
behind smoky screens
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A child at dawn talks
to scarecrows so chaste
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At night found drowned
in muddy waters ravine
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Purgatory's messenger
holds great promise for the proud
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Severance from material
love equals freedom from earthly yoke,
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Immortal souls will soar
in unison's dazzling cloud
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A debt post-mortem settled,
a new morning broke–
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A redesigning youth,
dying too young moaned
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It is not God's stately
mansion that I sought
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But my humble treehouse
not adorned
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Paradise's earthly idyll,
however wrought.
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In a pond's depth immortalized,
a dead child's smile
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Summer scents but vague,
painful memories, impressed on roses
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In winter's night, phantastic
crystals reassemble her fragile profile
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A glass figurine's translucent
elusive prose,
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In the theatre :
the lights suddenly died.
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In Gastown a beggar plays
his broken violin
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Snowdrifts covering footsteps
with no sound
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Like in children's adventures
we like to challenge goblins
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No truth is truer than
wisdom in illusion found.
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