Tuesday 14 October 2014

Its Just Not Wonderland (Another Version) Cheryl Penn/TICTAC (Ptrizia) (Germany)

Jim elbowed Jane
dear, I taste a tear
in my T
Sshhh
The jabberwocky sups.
Alice hands out papyrus
And quill
The mice wait.
The Queen of Spades
Digs
Into minds not her own
Seeking
She knows not what -
An Elusive
An Evanescent
An Ephemeral
A transitory moment
With which to complete her dinner.

 2
It's just not
a coincidence?
Transmute
the singularity
in forgettable occurences
The mirror lies
Emptiness has no face
But a fascinating blankness
Like Walking Along
The suspension points.

3
sideways
glance squinting
left
in the mirror
a-head behind a mind
caught inbetween
reality and a marginally
illusory perception of now
in which
the mirror lies
lies the mirror.

4
reflections
a mirror line 
geometry of a thought
facing the other way
the other way facing
mute
the lies
words that 
some and where
never reached my ears
here

5
you told me that
1000 times I’m glad you’re here
seeing me
in you.
Where is Raven?
Red shrouds over mirrors
in which
our futures lie.
We woke up well
the Mirrored Ones.

6
re(d)member 
Mirrors are not doors 
liquid surfaces 
waiting to become depth
waiting
like time
counting the steps
to nowhere

7
You’ll need a telephone
an old one
like a wave mirror
but not that hot.
A good start for sharks
can I have your
wonderland shoes - ok
KIDDING!
heat waves on phone lines
I’m sorry
about before
make it simple
please
this mirrored face.

8
language doesn't fit my experiences
and voices are full of mirrors.

                  .indeed.

on the landing there is a phone,
and beside that hung a
phone book.
Put some here "there"
ssssh...this will impress her.
(the shark was extremely economical with the truth)
and now?
then i looked down here
and seen the car
and i said to myself, that's it
i'll go shopping.

9
We leave before dark
but
not for shopping.
i saw a wonderland lily
i think
nothing like i ever felt
pure animal instinct
you never know
what
you’re made of
making out like
some kind of mirrored
hero.

10
i cannot rest from travel
developing the shadows of a hurt
my shoes are starting to dance.
.......................already.
AWAY there is only distance
say no more.
the air is soft
the luggage heavy
shouldn't carry the mirror along 
the whole room is in it!

11
Scream for help
if you can whisper.
Where?
When?
Understood.
10.46
no, make that 10.50
12 hours later.
grey sky - that’s my report.
what happened??
mirror work is not an exact science
that’s what happened.
Look down
the patterns on the surface are glossy
and her lips pale.


12

10.50
numbers to collect
before they run away
sliding on the walls like shadows
sunset
a daily disappearance
nothing happens
that tomorrow is not
where?
your face 
i read
glossy like a magazine
wait for no wonderland
its just not.

13
outside wonderland
(of which there isn’t?)
spinning air
blades rotate
dust lifts
discarded shrouds
dump the site
of mangled steel
bringing her
- barbed wire
she walked first.
A life for
a mirrored life.
You don’t have to do this
you were right about
what you said earlier -
the light on her hair is cruel
and I’ve taken Them
at Their word.


14
Not where it should be
round and round
trapped is the circle
master the puzzle. now.
Discover the truth
Steel and steal sound the same
but still lips of ruffled words
splattered mirror
reverse the image
no way back
dusty tracks fill my mind
not the destination
I cant remember if it was actually.. 
me.

15
Try again?
the bone slums
did we get there?
the light is strange
in  reversed images
the voltage low.

pedestrian puzzle areas
made public
get ready
this is for real.

looking for
a sliding door
and remnants of other worlds
a mirror in mind condition.

16
the story has disappeared into the mirror
unfolding 
Compelling weavers of layers
the suburban reality
everyday 
distant
however 
obscure
each with a tale to tell.
False refuges
is it a matter of choices?
THE DOOR SLIDES
conquered resistance
let me take another look 
i know it's down there

17
two miles out
Down There
leviathan rises.
water swept primal mirrors
how could we ever win?
turn around
before we drown
in our own reflection -
This was The One
where
we
could not win
flames
shells - 10 miles up the coast
the signature is rising.

18
Rising like a dragon -
A sign of changes
sliced one by one
thinly
fruits bleeding juice
dry earth
petrichor
blending from 
Twisted shrubbery
only
no prints to leave
on fossil water
gone is The One.

19
Do you mean we can win
This One?
Face our reflections?
Raven
the winged ones come
heart beats
earth shake
the bridge must go
take cover little one
that’s all you have
the footsteps are
harder
the rhythms
faster
enfolding clouds
to swallow the mirrored bridge.
between
here and there
I am become death
destroyer of worlds
there is much you
do not understand.

20
trust
taking the long view-
                  -can help
its a reflection
hanging from a past event
a mirage?
no! an abstract question
who's there?
the man of glass
from his fragility
hides in the mirror
shrouded in suspicion
the earth shakes again
i'm leaving to find some air.


21
Breach in a blurred reflection
she’s chasing the rabbit you know
Surreal Red shoes.

stay in the Now
listen to me
its snowing - I cannot catch you
if silent foot falls
rage against ongoing shows.
lonely shriek
deserted  deserts
astral planes fly overhead
I tried to control my tears
this is just a memory
its not real
that he came

looking for you

22
the rabbit has pointed teeth
ancestral hunger
unforgiving memory burns the mind
shadows follow her steps
questions disguised as statements
rhetorical danger 

nothing has yet been said

surpass the discourse
left behind forms - not to be rediscovered
only signs matter
open your eyes, wipe the tears
time to go - don't listen
                  the tapping is getting faster and faster

23
Change - Gold shoes
MAN! what do you want?
Want? what’s that?
I really cant say
the shouting started
again
in voices so low
they turned the mirrored lock.
I like my life
so why don’t you disappear?
Hold her back
madness through the steam
I said apologize
ENOUGH!
this is over.
It was my mistake
so what?
You’re grounding us
Trying to recall our memories?


24
i don't remember much
before i knew who i was
but now that the weekend is approaching
la luna si presenta in faticosa quadratura, per
i heard a voice, didn't i?
never mind the One inside your head
.
.
gold shoes tapping, AGAIN.
run now, run
no mis-take
pay them no nevermind
they belong to a box
ostensibly to bridge both those worlds together. Unsurprisingly.
mirror, mirror.. who did you lock in?

25
You mean
I wont remember
what happens today
            today locked in
            companion to jet lag.
Vandag was nie hier nie?
I wont remember I had
The One
I wont
remember anything.
Why am I holding the burial shroud
Who
died?

Rewind the blade
GO!
Why do you all want me
Aside from the secrets I hold?
Lifted above the ground
10.59
One second to
Strike.


26
not here, right now
too far the dreaming has gone
today is a repetition of yesterday
he wanted to sit outside

As if that mattered.

words made the room rotate
can you hear the wheezing sound?
oppressive
insistent
like a secret wanting to drown
there is a shark in the pool
"it's pure coincidence"
10.60
i lost a second.
quick i'll go off into the dark


27
Far flung words
their life
breathlessness/dying
as they are hurled to
abuse
reflections 
of what we once were.
don’t USE us
to maim
we just wish to BE
More than a prediction
politics are poetry
for them the truth is a lie
the good news?
this is us
that is them
just sad reflections.

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