Poetry from Iduoze Abdulhafiz (two of three)

LITANIA GESTAPO

… sheen brawls murk descent

toward drunk deft defeats

prior blind struggle ethereal sweat

heaven’s generic tableau splatters

float governing dams

spring weather active determinant

each sacred prerogative

must udder kiss for such nurse

minute attention provide

via each limen lineament

brick glove metallic sat

lip sporadic submissive gains;

constabularies crown greet credential

wads mint scent, pleasure forge

intent tenders luxe coolth

basks storm ranges age and ages

aegis frivolous seeped therein identify

ready to sleep breathing brine

urine sate bliss marinade arms —

bask lain grasp cub beer

beneath breath broke seal

wound teems detriment lament

float triremes convey sorrow

wielding lush goods banks reject

attested prior wrought course

vomit all coasted goods

isle requires and polish seeks

in order to resonate attent glim

bold dais chanting “no more dim

or dust or rubble encumbrances

yet light steps must darken

earth’s collegiate canvas churl

ordering gardenia pure thread reek

to lull aromas settling churn

latent belly dormant gains

speech zips at accomplish

melodious stitches odious police,

painting orifice virginity red

when silence spoke bursts breath legs

ambience desolate demesne lead

dipped drift dealt bliss peculiar connote…”

breaks platform spine inevitable

ensue collapse commence cheer

sharp plummet contrast thusly seeds

pogostemon acrid flare yield

blare of disparate tones

sprung onto kitchen attribute

only window sole vision cognizes

sheen shot brunt; brawl murk

toward drunk deft defeats —

in echo magnify fire scald

filming thumb flesh thrust tap

vigorous squirts peace rested brain

fails aware stainless steel passionate

kissed: tongue spit vigour manoeuvre

mans at stoic corpse

while steam escapes bars spag

lords burnt suzerain propice inhere

regular for optimum culinary spectacular

must prison reach out to dig

hunger being teeth secondary

toddler pristine depth master;

least stew is; other at soon sears

pain ubiquitous futility withdraws

faced bark recalling subjective

imperative grand objective isle

resurfaced by bleached walls

and discordance in gene as eve

deepens in nightly trajectory

defecating eigengrau with loud winds

characterising storms lost at sea

which froze — tabled shrouded

embarks to transport deathly fragrance

with such conflagration as intimidates

troglobites at dawn night

by no initiation whatsoever;

for grim gongs gloat only so —

cannot touch a handshake

despite proven historical attempts;

atomic nature maintains repel latency

vital to propagate and dispel inertia

as an eidetic cat, familiar with

trembling liquid voyages

diminutive beverage addiction

densely thick to slush tongue

and prepossess feline mental faculties

defeating charms wanton ascetic

initiate guiltless gilt age

sleep fills wondrous wanderings

beneath such overpowering beams

intensate passion spices disability

cadaver hears deaf states stating

each strand bears beards and spawns

prickle inquired attentive rendered

egress: self-curtain close event

fate eterne faithless blends

circumspect embonpoint achieve

each grade unlearnt seasons

filmed thumb recites cautious clop

through charnel presenting depth master

crucial design; doll mid-air

sleep evades at activity

night conducted attribute throb

wail, travel, family, lawyers et al.

behest eye remain repose distract

being sole grand infant; cousins past

past — seared thumb jocose attempts

unacknowledged blanch recourse rush

door obverse backs charnel dark

as feet flour strand sudden steps;

ten feet off cadaver speech

transfixed, life depart staid

applauds flaccid conclude distinguish

prior conducts caning migrations

anterior skulls proceeds sheathing

pregnant earth as a result

excess aborting and robbing heights

tectonic grants geographic vision

knowing time is singly constant

in realms of human physics;

failing to escape constraints

even often within sire establish

attracting fallibility of concept approach

leading inevitable perceptive doubt

abandonment or ignorance address

with a divine: sire — slur

for what use but beating meat

such attentive strait as incurred

may one respectable country king

accord superficiality terse; limiting

air meanders method malleability

availing memoir murky memory:

yet search signifies some significant

at consequent catch correspondence

amid blanche beckon burdened

breach threshold teeming terms

terminating resonance reasonable

cohere confusion cachet repudiates

with beer bottles bellied

in indubitable tray isles

dealing general presence darkness

focused at prompt nether egress

analysis digestion and delineation:

your father was in the hospital alone

and was not catered for for years,

how will you reply that

or think it is in anyway right —

payment must be made to our family

or you won’t be permitted burial.;

What have you been saying, Uncle?;

inflame stood scorch scalp:

I took my father to the best hospitals,

What are you saying, God! I’m insulted.

We took our dad to best hospitals,

spent what was necessary and extra.

Ekpen see what they are saying to us.

In fact; how much do you want,

how much? Five hundred k?

I will give you one million

then my siblings will add one one

to make it five, since you want five

at the beginning of the money…

What a five star family consolation

to accuse us!; O ma se vbe rio, e gwi;

Se ai, no gwi. Emwin ni ma ru no,

o ma hen emwin era kekevbe iye ru?

Uki se. O gba ne; see Uncle,

let me be sincere, I don’t like this talk

but I will try and understand

since it is the way of our culture

but please we did what we are meant.

Money is not the issue in this grief

and we are not having that type

of problem. — Tray retreats thus

gesticulated, last catching beams

blasted from a victorious moon

as it returns through recesses

to the kitchen current crowded

by hysterics dissonant effused

from debates wives and sisters voice

which escapes recalling tray

running tired through week

unto splotch of the instant

constructing water atoms from element

to molecular state incognizant

of tremendous leveled activity

sceptic chronic skeptics

colloquial confer ineffable grandeur

knowing such reject sign insane

which is wished off haughty bane

strict avoiding conceit appearances

yet may course deceit pulse justified

by a primal nature of the ego

(the lie will not be lent void)

“self” formulating extant threads

with crucial beam engross

necessitating occasioned appearance

of such as scorned towards spots

boned pretence; where inevitability

accords latter yet denies former

on grounds unexamined latterly

thence though one is not body

by body virtues one grows one

how one ends to learn to can

encountering each -ness expressed

from experiential earthenware

met meeting conscious structure ink

scribbling letters formulating fate

with its laissez faire cartography

pell-mell annals of time anally

with each blob of shit crafting a weekday

much strongly obscuring any pleasure

previous weekend sparse dished

choking parched gullet malleable spit;

forge experienced and muscle toned,

ghosts zeitgeist eterne missive —

earth sires prostitutes to make mockery

from behind blameless screens

of the helplessness of their inclinations

and inevitable succumb

left rife time’s cosmic terrain.

Bed adrift cognize ceiling glimpses:

consciousness lost as common sense

to reveal trickles of experience

scant relevant to slippery gust

wave washing cerebral synapses

with the purity of rest

necessary to run smooth drudgery

sure to spice and assist day

with accomplish element; fruition

greatly sought by the tree,

as time spills off its beer cup,

life with gusto claims at be

dissipate recreative ubiquity

dominant engross generous shrouds

for a constant aware

drives thought severe unaware

inevitable wear of the gloss

commences engross generous shroud

with feline temerity precarious

to the very facts of its allure:

the spring is paste; yet it bodes bold breaths

licked by tongues as spiced frost cup sells

off sheer slive of air moon beams dispel

cloud will derne hell bent bare ray darting

Elysium intrinsic, overpowering night

with streaks day reminiscent

after gifted apparent struggle

art thou pale of weariness

for a constant aware…

Know Lieben, Tu: et je ecrire a tu.

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