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SPHINX CHILD short poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
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Child of the sphinx, In your golden eyes A millennium of small slaughters In the gold of the granary, In the warehouse, or in ships at sea; In Egypt of four thousand years ago Parlaying a useful propensity For the taste of rat and roach Into a culture's devotion. This morning, on the outhouse roof, Your paw preens fur, Silk in the sun, Feathering the wind With the ruin of the first kill. At day's end, a lumpy bed; A lightbulb Burning like Guernica. Your body burrows into my blankets; Your head Butts at my flank, And your textures Predict the sun. Your throat Purrs. |
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