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Not your toe
in shallow water
stirring ripples
reverberating
out beyond
your safe, insular
sphere
Rule by proxy,
slow stale waltz
of nepotism,
finger in the wind --
not your own --
impatiently awaiting
omenable
gust of war
Rippling foments riptide
scornful swirling sea --
winedark reflection of
your intoxicated
disconnect --
who is the enemy
of the hour?
adversary of
convenience?
Once you stumble
past that grim line
pushing others into
the churning
you implode identity
just as soldiers
become numerals --
mere appendages,
submerging
into depthless
appetite
It’s elemental:
he who disdains
the Elements
dares the brunt
of cyclical fury
entitlement being
no match
for serrated
curving
Last Wave
Finger and toe --
not your own...
to touch water
and taste wind
you must
cross confines
of hearth and kin
make mindful use
of all senses
all skins
©2002, Laki Vazakas
Laki Vazakas is a videomaker and educator who lives in Portland, Maine.
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