collage: daniel abdal-hayy moore
BACKBENT SCRIBES
by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
An
underwater oceanographer looks through his
round
porthole and sees a
celestial
city riding on silver clouds
An
astronomer glues his eyes to a telescope’s eyepiece and
sees
a convoy of whales just heading out
from
a lunar orbit after a meeting of the Shoosh Clan
I
look down at this page in the
act
of writing and see
millennia
of backbent scribes trying to
get
it down in words before it
all
turns back into sugar
The
downpour is ceaseless but as we
glance
out through the falling strands of water we might
catch
a glimpse of the pearl necklaces God
dangles
down from The Beloved’s neck
just
near enough to earth to
entice
us both forward and upward
with
a glitter in our eyes only
magnified
by the sights we see
A
thundercloud that opens on Odin’s Peak
A
rainbow backdrop to all the oceans
clapping
their hands for joy at God’s
fishy
banquet day after day
and
at night when moonlight spreads its
elegant
silken tablecloth out on the waves
~
previously published in Sparks Off the
Main Strike
( The Ecstatic Exchange )
