Today is Boxing Day
in an isle parts of us hail from
surely not homage to Sugar Ray
or container congloms
Coming up
Two Zero Zero Two
fast forward spin
of daily round hurtling
through eons in a muddle
of survivors amid loss
we’ll miss out on
Three Zero Zero Three
the next esthetically balanced annum
my wish list
future free of media speak
GROUND ZERO
to decram landfill
will our remains circle a black sun
in cosmos-proof microchips
Madonna stay put
trajectory complete
idyll of seasons over
poets and cats and poets’ cats
warrant a corner
so rememberers can beat back
the voracious hurtling
grounded for an instant
as fleet as a final sigh
(for Anni, In Memoriam Madonna)
Kenward Elmslie (1929 – 2022)
Source: Poets.org
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