Blue Square Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

It was a blue square
Enclosed
Dark soil and loam and
Dust
And black
Black earth all round
Here
Here it was that last night
There was a ghostly cavalcade
Ghost horses ghost riders
Bearing.


Gewite
Demis
Pere
Rodobe
Perisi
Demi
Nimeri
Sepis
Steri
Xemex
Xemix


As in a Ganges
The stars were bathing
And by them
Lank figures emaciated
Ghosts
Shadows
Shrouds
And
Rattling skeletons
Across the sands of the
Night beaches
The foot print of ghosts
And shrouds hurrying
So large a crowd
So impatient-stressed
And angst!

Gewite
Demis
Pere
Rodobe
Perisi
Demi
Nimeri
Sepis
Steri
Xemex
Xemix

The cock crowed round mid-night this night!