Fly On Wall... Poem by Daniel Y.
Fly On Wall...
Thought peculiar that
brother's smear
(which smelled like him
but did not move,
I've never seen this way before)
does make nutritious snack.
The Leviathan rests, a tentacle raised.
His blender movements
like a rogue copter
did not close to me smack.
O contentment,
found me at the lights,
and stole me like poetry.
This unlucky midnight summer.
Marked for death am I,
by the Hitler in the Hawaiian shirt.
So deceptively patterned like azaleas,
and a fragrance like summer de l'eau.
Thought I safe as he left-and-right-lefted.
And I moved occasionally
to show my approval of the dance.
The horror of a monochrome square,
traveling at warp speed.
is magnified three thousand
times
when you have three thousand
eyes
Crush and.
All I can move is a wing.
As Mandolyn put it this is A GREAT DANCE OF WORDS and I too was struck by the incongruous, startling image of HITLER IN AN HAWAIIAN SHIRT (the only person I'm aware of who wore Hawaiian shirts regularly was the French composer Olivier Messiaen) but that phrase occurs in the context of the fly realizing it's being hunted by a LEVIATHAN - a human being - whose cruel (?) blow renders it helpless. Such is the fate of small creatures like flies and snails. Once again you inhabit the consciousness of another being alien to our view/perceptions.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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As Mandolyn put it this is A GREAT DANCE OF WORDS and I too was struck by the incongruous, startling image of HITLER IN AN HAWAIIAN SHIRT (the only person I'm aware of who wore Hawaiian shirts regularly was the French composer Olivier Messiaen) but that phrase occurs in the context of the fly realizing it's being hunted by a LEVIATHAN - a human being - whose cruel (?) blow renders it helpless. Such is the fate of small creatures like flies and snails. Once again you inhabit the consciousness of another being alien to our view/perceptions.