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Devonian Fish

POETRY

2018

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lumper lumper

soundless and stock still

a capsized world hidden

who shall find us amongst these voiceless reeds

Pressed down

listening to the one last vein

of the river Belubula to babble with

our mouths are open and the suck is spoilt

and the ebbed tide is close to ones chest

skimming a stone where depth has it's last leap

can you feel that?

can you?

they are where the water does not serve

all ears to the lumpers

and anchors to this slab of sea mud hooks

sitting cold and covered

light into darkness

90 kilograms stacked.......... lumper lumper

devote themselves to the unapologetic

hemmed in quietness

of the gravity of this earth

Can you feel that?

Can you?

dog leg course of departures and returns

we paid our way

no more tails of twists and turns

above us are the lumpers.......... lumper lumper

skimming a stone above

where depth is poised

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