Oliver Mitchell & Yvonne Owens, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

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Yvonne Owens, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

WAR

1 October 2014 at 17:25

What is this thing called war?

So close, familiar,

Intimate and mine?

As near as the lines on my palm

Insistent, “you know me….!

“I’m in you, like wine….”

A heady draught, an incessant drum.

Like a pulse, or a song

That doesn’t end.

What are you, that abides,

In the blood, and the bone

That calls out,

Is compelled, bound outward,

and in, bound to see

Its image flower in the dust

Spilled like petals

Carmine blooms, from a basket overfull

Of good intentions?

What is the ancient intelligence

That dwells underneath

Every protest of peace

And goodwill, the limbic brain

Calling forth, from the deep

Well of memory, and fear

In sibilant earnest, the desire,

“To end all wars,” if you’ll just let me have

This, one more….

How is this thing

To ever end, its constant beat

Its tired song, when all its life

Is cycle-bound, like any hungry

Parasite, whose craving need

Is ever-fed, and hunger is

Its own reward, a thirsting addict

Reaching out its blind, poor mouth

Among our kind?

So give it alms?

And throw a bone,

Or millions, and some crumbs besides?

The climax of the clamoring beat,

The drumming pulse, the blood’s own heat

Insists and calls, from hill to hill

Like ancient fires, and women’s cries

That armies on the boil

Deny.

The serpent logic stirs

And wakes, but fails to rise

Beyond the gnarled, grim root

But coils and measures, calculates

The strict advantage, less flight than strike

“The kingdom’s yours, don’t hesitate

“Dominion waits,” the blithe,

New leaves, far higher up, are a’shiver

The cold wind turning ‘round.

The seed, the core

Of war, set deep

In sex and difference, older earth

Primary, raw, polluted bane

Of Other, Mother, Monster, Law

Dark matrix, unalienable

Nature’s saw. “What made you can unmake you..,”

Whispers fear, the throne now threatened

Balanced, pure.

Yvonne Owens

Victoria,2014

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& 

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