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Landing Aegean
(hotel kissos)













Light enters,
wearing out eyes
modelling them
on memories of flight.

A pendulum swing
from headache to sleep,
from dreams, awake
alights
on the shores of Oddessy.

 
In the hotel lobby
sipping coffee,
sitting in ochre seats
surrounded by purple light.

Rothko seating, eyes out, neon
light leaking through
the door frame cracks of the lift.
Halogen stars holding up the floors above
where you sleep.
 

 

 I, sleepless
pause
and
watch the second hand creep
round again
caging me in night and day,
and
through the open hotel doors
see
lace broken curtains twitch
in the dust white caravan parked
tilting
across the road.
A bulldozer chugs by
chain smokin' building
the rest of the world
from inside out
this hotel's foundations
up
where
an empty ceiling fixture
dangles from the sky
hoping one day
to be a chandelier
glinting
amidst the stars.
20/6/02 (athena)