...............enters the Study
Wasp
Unzipping the quiet spaces
With a curt buzz,
A snide bell intermittently ringing.
I am stung into action,
The Skull and Cross Bones
Now come to mind;
The pirate loops the loop.
Iron invades my soul.
The cat looks on from a safe distance.
A brass weight snatched by sweaty fingers:
A square of wall crumbles to dust:
My shoes turn white.
I had imagined a sabre splitting hairs,
Not this plummeting rubble.
The cat spins like a broken Top
Flaying the carpet.
Electric wires fizzle and pop:
Smartly the safety catch is thrown
Instigating silence.
The thermometer has lost several degrees
In less than a minute.
I carefully put down the brass weight,
Then return to my book.
The cat stretches her paws and yawns.
A small wing flickers.
Trevor John Karsavin Potter
October 24th. 2012 - January 6th. 2013. (First sketched May 20th. 1973)
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