Friday Night Lights Project: Week #49

We’re getting very closing to flicking the switch one last time on this project… just three more Fridays and the year is done… which is a little scary! But let’s not dwell on the end, as  there is much light to fill the eyes. This week, Ashley leads us through an entrancing museum, Cindy plants a vivid garden and this Lost Shark flares his nostrils. Let yourself light up this Saturday!

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I reckon this is a museum.
There is a pony tailed docent
explaining to children
enamel’s extraordinary properties,
the color scale of cows and trees

There is a Wedgewood room.
I think the 18th century
game dish is my favorite
its handle shaped like a dressed rabbit
to be held in the fingers of a servant
portioning the main course for guests

and on the walls, botanic plates,
the common fig, grown for fruit
and ornament: for looking at
I consider this place
a history of the present
since here the light is
for fixed objects
and you and I move,
and children, and old banquets

AM

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CK

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Somewhere in this mirror is the boy
who ran down dirt roads
the scent of horses flaring
his nostrils.

Through spear grass and milk-
weed he would gallop
stooping to check under the water
trough for snakes —

red-bellied and brown —
before plunging his head to wash
the dust devils from
his unruly mane.

Today there are no wide tracks
the same summer sky is
a cruel spur in
my flanks.

Though at dawn when
the dog shakes itself from sleep
and the neighbours rooster
clears its throat

I can feel his kick —
that will to take
the bit between the teeth
and bite through.

GN