Dark Sea
What can steal on the march of time
time that has passed time that is to come
on the dark sea of matter
within & without
gravitating gravitating gravitating
language is barely sufficient for it
in our mortal transit
in a universe which is forever a phantom face
its unresolved visitations
touched & untouched
my cat mind my dog mind
as different as chalk & cheese
it calls for a comment on our mysterious cosmos
in its great indifference to us
which we inhabit rather miraculously more than
the mere mathematics of matrix & fractal
but as self regulating networks together
with the brainless networks
where we may spread our membranous wings
& harvest angels on the dark sea within & without
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk, Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)