5.)

The Stranger.

he stares once more
into her eyes, they seem
to weep but never do

let tears fall, but stay,
the sea breaks, true ,
there are no tears

in eyes that only seem
to weep, only surprise:
the sea breaks.

what do you say,
what do you see, as
his heart is borne there,

where it breaks for her,
where the sea breaks,
a stranger on the shore.

ii.

variation on form:
wor(l)ds within wor(l)ds obey
different laws

of nights & days,
a corresponding scenario
alters.

iii.

identity & fiction:
time is a convention,
a watch

unwinds hypnotically,
flying carpets share no ground,
above

below,
read in a mirror,
you appear to be transposed.

iv.

variation on form:
in form with,
time as, a convention.

a watch rewinds
through a reverse negative
to mirror night.

v.

take the butterfly
is it not versatile,
but crookedly.

vi.

Infinite variation:
the same manifestation
through

difference
is a paradoxical
act of nature.

vii.

as his fingers twitched,
he dared to look
at his finger tip tops.

viii.

the moth goes
to the flame, the serpent
came from the sea.

ix.

infinite paradox:
mirror at night,
a mirror in light.

x.

Rubbish trucks dispose
night, eerie workers
bay down the street signs.

Copyright Robin Ouzman Hislop 2003
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Modes of Mystery 5.)