A View From Patmos Poem by nicky kelly

Someone abolished seeing
betting the world ‘s going to finish -
voice sprawled on the table as a tired player
eye turned on the cheat as ever -
leaving earth and sky quibbles
to remain a child and a little
reconciled shadow practising
and preaching
behind the superfluous peal
come from all the peals
touching prepares an invisible
mirror, an edifice,
a resigned weight could seem a true thing
- so resalting in the contact with the nude thing -
but, see, the walls fall so venal
the lethargy ‘s wide ajar
partial comprehensions patrol the air
the horizon cicatrizes every rift
the living thermocautery meets
only noblesse oblige to blindly believe
the remains and signs of a human feast
do not disappear all
around the cannibal.