D' Talipapa

From the book: MIDNIGHT RAINBOW

D’ Talipapa

As with this old seeping, creeping age

Reality?  Or perception of a cold, sleeping dream

Blurring the fading pictures of a wandering life

Slurring the mouthless words, adrift each night

Her long, long hooped stocking legs walking

Mumbling her mother-tongue, unknown language

Paraded through an aquatic zoo of the dead

Faded, once staring, bright unblinkerable eyes

All lifeless, beautifully naked and spotted

Captured in the ocean’s death nets, garrotted

Marked with the freckles of the sea’s trillion

A touch of slime, then back to oblivion

D’Talipapa Fish Market Boracay : Harry Mills 1^st August 2011