In the cat's eye you will find answer you seek
and it will be a complex one, difficult
but true and in that eye you will see also
possibility for way to navigate
such a dangerous passage. Act swiftly now
to cut ties to those who have no loyalty
to you and who hold brutality beneath
their pleasantries false and wholly selfish moves.
As for me, I would forgive but turn first to
one who has been loyal to you. Find now the strength
to stand in integrity I see in you.
I too understand how one can frame a crime
as necessary test and make you believe
a lie, then turn to turn the tables on you.
It is harsh reality it took me long
to accept and see. Choose yourself and be free.
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,