J'thani - A Poem of Intent

[Edie Antoinette]

Enmeshed in blood and earth,
provoking a new sensitivity to life,
to thought, to caring,
living beneath the diaspora,
dispelling all myth,
subsisting on the droppings of the rapacious beast,
we kiss, we make love, we create,
a morning of sunrise and clear sky,
a morning of peripheral vision and close encounters,
a morning in which the wind swirls amidst our new proposition.
We have enlightened the bats, and scattered the doves.
We have cleansed one another in the warm erudite rain of history,
and divested ourselves of all residue.


Bill Lawson(2008)