Before the night feast on the morning sun
And vomit its intestine to smile at noon
I save the glorious mind
Which escalates through the slippery part
.
Before the thousands fowl scatter around
Tilling out the afflicted worms
And raise their preys to the mountains top
To witness their wailing crows
.
Before the Ant defend their hills
Badging their colonies as they profess
Hailing their absolute Queen
Whose appearance shows with the last dig of man
.
Before the empire crumbles by allegory tales
Telling the course with tiny tongues
Whispering their endless mortal's voice
To accumlate their hopes aback at arms
.
I demand to admonish you my brethren and sistren
I profess you as that verocious tiger
Whose ambition never missed
Till aeon will I bethink you
As a being who gave back my true self.
.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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