Earth Hour by David Malouf

Author:David Malouf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2014-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

Towards Midnight

Always at the margin

of a room, among the shreds

and shadows there, a stranger.

Upstart angel

of unease or mute disruption,

visitant lurker

with a knife for us, the killing

word we dare not speak.

Or blear-eyed, wayworn, waif-like,

the guest we have set

a place for, arriving

late for the feast.

The Rapture

The being seized

and taken.

The being

swept off your feet

by your own

breath;

the moment

and all

time no longer

on your hands.

A lightening. As if

in the nest of your palm,

an egg, its shell

as fragile and pale

blue as the sky

overhead, suddenly trembled

and cracked

open as your self

-containment might,

and you

staggered under the advent

of wings.

The loss of

gravity, the weight

-lessness of being

swept up and

taken,

less

a breaking than a breaking

out.

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