Farce of Nature
A dream
As twisted as a tornado
I chicane through a hurricane
A veritable tsunami of smoke
Of misers and geysers who blow off steam
To shake things up in an earthquake of shared values
A landslide of cliches
Built on the quicksand of promised stability
A course chartered like a shipwreck chez nous
We must stem the tide they say
A flood of the other
The undertow of the unwashed
Those who threaten our way of life
Mapped out on a squeegee bored
From waiting on a corner
Brother, can you spare a coin?
I woke up in a sea of hijabs
And Bonhomme Carnival floated by in a dinghy
His compass broken
Like Pauline’s last platitude
On Pierre-Karl’s screen of plasma and fog
The Stain © Russell Harrison, 2014
This poem is featured in L’Anneau Poetique’s chapbook When Words Arrive. Russell Harrison is a board member of L’Anneau Poétique and a long-time poet and social activist.
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II remember when you read this poem for us at the anneau poetique! quite good!