Somewhere Else Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Somewhere else
A tuna's being stirred by a chef's ladle
Football fans are rioting on a pitch
It's 6: 00 pm. There's blood on a surgeon's scalpel
Parasites chew at a cruel emperor's vitals
A page boy coughs at his step sister's bridal
A virus mutates inside a child called Anna
An octopus drowns a man with a single tentacle
A letter drops a bombshell on a mat
A fabulous rose loses at last petal
Floods flush out a holy relic from a cathedral
Ladybirds swarm in the grass
A volcanic eruption gives a fatal spectacle
A small red house is plotting its own destruction
A bassoon drowns out a triangle
A banker dies half through the London marathon
An ice flower cracks, its frozen surface, brittle
One tribe annihilates another, calls this victory
A cloud over Mount Fuji floats by, ethereal
A box stares up at the sky for signs of rain
In hundreds of glamping sites, pork sausages sizzle
Black widow spider sets out table for two
Dancers gyrate to the sound of a gypsy fiddle
A god rolls up a country like a carpet
Night opens its mystery into a magic portal
A labourer eats a sandwich twenty stories high
A scientist plays with death in a small crucible
A child is sucked into a looking glass
Life passes by with the speed of a leaping squirrel
Dracula hunts hearts to press in his album
A bald poet goes missing in Herculaneum
A camel steps through the Biblical eye of a needle
A war is started by a line of text
A cockerel crows on top of a town steeple
A flock of sheep turn purple from eating lavender
A dead warrior lies in a stand of nettles
Milk teeth run off to gossip about chocolate
An asteroid crashes into a ball weevil
Somewhere else there's going to be an upheaval