Seer-Scribe
Amid alluvial
Thresholds in Sumer,
They invent
Writing to pin and hitch
Fugitive dreams to
Dried mud.
Lucid dreams,
Ur-casts of fiction,
Emerge from the
Liminal crucible of
Mesopotamia -
Slumbering squints that
Monitor the offing for
Rising water.
Lucidity -
An inch awake,
An inch outside, yet
Mostly inside the
Dream.
Creation -
An inch asleep,
An inch inside, yet
Mostly outside the
Tale.
Cyclic
Wetland-and-cropland
To-and-fro
Mimicked in the
Drowsed-or-rousted
Flutter of vision that
Sends the
Father of Multitudes
Forth out of Ur.
Poetry is
Alien until they
Dream of
Inundation.
Torrential
Waters sweep
Tree, carrion and
Debris into the
Wadi where they
Stand stock-still -
Half-eager,
Half-affright – until
They swallow the
Flood.
In the
Oozed afterglow,
Ibis, stilt and
Egret score
Symbol or keepsake into
Sweated mudbricks
Idling in the sun:
Winged pages bearing the
Gift of writing from an
Underworld dream-teller -
Geshtinanna,
Seer-Scribe of Sumer.
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