Sunday, July 29, 2012

Blown Away


The heat wave was so 
Stupefying the cicadas 

Exploded taking off 
Our heads the last I heard 

They were high- 
Tailing it, frazzled 

By dodging sparrows 
Pine to pine. 



3 comments:

  1. Vassilis,

    always appreciate the deliciously menacing enjambments. I mean: where would the infernal noise of the cicadas "taking off" in summer be more likely to be felt than in exploded heads?

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  2. I understand the feeling, though in my particular case it was (alas) not a cicada but a VW Jetta.

    And here I go again with my willful misreading syndrome: what or who exactly was it that was hightailing it, then -- the exploded cicadas, our decapitated heads, or the Jetta?

    The two formers piled into the latter, perhaps, heading straight off into the darkest part of the wood?

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  3. Yep, those enjambments can be pretty menacing--especially if it's a Jetta that's doing the jamming and it's an unsuspecting poet's (not a pedestrian one by a long shot!)head that's on the receiving end. Unfortunately, just when you think the heat wave has petered out, there comes another one just as fierce.

    This has not been a cool summer in Hellas, folks.

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