midnight whisper
25 & 26 february 2022
on the terrace
at midnight,
stars damp
in shine,
southern cross
on its sceptre,
a dog
barking,
______artillery,
crickets
rattling
the dark
awake,
______tanks,
sun
flowering
in buried
pockets
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A reading of the poem on the terrace is posted here below:
Ruru ki Te Ruru 
damp stars, indeed! and Sound, at those emptier night hours, is a miraculous presence
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And our thoughts flutter over distances of chaos and suffering.
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Yes, and somehow the sounds of the actual environment mingled in mind with the imagined sounds of tanks (the rattling of the crickets as tracks), and the dog barking, artillery.
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