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The Reluctant Magician

There is a thin red line
a ribbon of warning 
on the horizon,
a silk handkerchief
pulled from a felt black hat,
unfolding a grey storm
upon the whole of the island.

The storm,

not isolated to the small boats
that dot the sea,
drenches through every pore
of the reluctant magician's trick.


"Oh I have suffered
with those that I saw suffer."
And regardless of my slight of hand
and nimble spells 
could not save them.


I am a pretend Prospero.
Master and servant to Caliban
A savage roaring through my sleep
who I enslave in my dreams
with his sharp teeth.


"Oh I have suffered
with those that I saw suffer."
And replay this slight of hand
to my everyday tempest.


Oh come great storm.
Take me with you as you
move to the seas 
and through the skies.

I wish no longer
to stand on the cliff side
orchestrating the wind.

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
9:46 am
As a storm passes through.
Back patio at The Bean.

(The quote is from Prospero's daughter Miranda in Shakespeare's play The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2)






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