Indoors the tang of a tiny oil lamp. Outdoors
The winking signal on the waste of sea.
Indoors the sound of the wind. Outdoors the wind.
Indoors the locked heart and the lost key.
Outdoors the chill, the void, the siren. Indoors
The strong man pained to find his red blood cools,
While the blind clock grows louder, faster. Outdoors
The silent moon, the garrulous tides she rules.
Indoors ancestral curse-cum-blessing. Outdoors
The empty bowl of heaven, the empty deep.
Indoors a purposeful man who talks at cross
Purposes, to himself, in a broken sleep.
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This poem has the flashback of camera motion. Indoors/ outdoors. Almost seems that it could be used as part of a movie scene! Nature, man and purpose come through in this. "The empty bowl of heaven, the empty deep./Indoors a purposeful man who talks at cross/Purposes, to himself, in a broken sleep." Hypnotic. A nice, balance poem.
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