Beetlebung and Kettlehole--April Poems

Opacity

Vision with eyes closed: Vulture,
a clown-faced trickster cawing.
Vast message: shadow,
the fear, yours and mine,
stiff as carrion.

Funny, how we confront
the secret blotch,
brandishing swords in unison
at parallel images
and call it confusion!
Then, we throw questions in the air…
Why can’t you listen
what I have been trying to say?
Why don’t I accept your
explanation?

While the pathogen distrust hides
in the mind’s immune system
to forbid awakening.

          Prompt: group dreaming. Google Inception (a film) or Jung/Jungian archetypes in dreams