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The Rotation of Eggs And Planets

by  seanfarragher

Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Word Count: 119
Summary: Exercise for Poetry Seminar. I kept to the visual patern in first draft but then as the poem came together the line breaks changed.




Rotation of Eggs Over Planets

Every egg wobbles unequally
towards equator when tropical depression
shears calm
over planet
declines
weather – for winds
blew scared rabbits, us
outside hutch -- spears
fell – No
one
dies invisible when your trails ends
under last rock skipped merrily over pond –
your hands tremble – nothing watched,
replaced minds dead on command
air strike called
friendly fire at
edge where skin blistered opened
to scar when soldiers
walked roads
teeter totter
vulnerable egg shell --
hoping none
cracks becomes crushed as the shell
set fire like smart bombs over Iraq smacked
with nursery rhymes unsettled violent
base ball bats and terror
will-full raw eggs rattled underneath crippled limbs with human bombs.