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| INVOCATION by Wim Coleman Invocation You is the mantra of mantras the talisman word You is the text of the mass not to be uttered backward for that is the way of hate You is the space between voices the measure of that space the bridge across You is the blade that severs the needle and thread that mend the gasp of delight the ache Nocturne So now you wander, and earth twists wide between us. I turn my headboard to the north at night afraid to move. Will you come to this bed looking for me? Sleep strains on its rope. It gets your scent from a piece of clothing you left two or a thousand years ago. I turn my sleep free. I send it searching. Mirage What you see behind your face is the fan-dance shape of a felt black cat wafting a pair of yellow glass eyes through a house that dreams itself. Psalm Raging at Sacred You I become the wasp I saw (oh so long ago) hurling her heavy abdomen time and time again against the hot ceiling light bulb as steaming venom fell to the cold basement floor. My sting-tail cannot pain you, Adamantine You. I’d best buzz far away and share the muted glimmer that gladdens. But I strive to splinter your glass and shrivel into a black smoking cinder upon your white-star-filament. Only madness seeks love. Memo I.O.U. the voice of the owl that speaks through the window of my new home as I type these words for you & I.O.U. the voice of the child I hear mocking the owl in reply & I.O.U. masks of owls & children without number & psalms for the masks to sing. About the Author: .jpg) Wim Coleman is a playwright, poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer. His play The Shackles of Liberty was the winner of the 2016 Southern Playwrights Competition. Two collections of his one-act plays, Nine Muses and Stages of History, are currently in print, and his plays have appeared in anthologies along with works by authors ranging from Molière to David Mamet. Books that he has co-authored with his wife, Pat Perrin, have been published by Harmony Books, Pocket Books, and Bantam. Their award-winning novels include Anna’s World, which was the Silver Medalist in the 2008 Moonbeam Awards, and The Jamais Vu Papers, which was a 2011 finalist for the Eric Hoffer/Montaigne Medal. Wim is an active member of PEN International. |
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