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Two O Clock Stars

S. R. Mearns

Its as dark as it should be
With Only two o’clock stars
For company,
Each flip flop step
Echoing alarmingly
On the polished steps,
Breaking the silence
Not even the extensive
Bat wings could breach
I can even hear the faint sea
Stroking the shore
And the goatsuckers beat.
The other noise is louder
The one that ambushed my dream,
A rhythmic Zulu spear banger
From Rourke’s Drift
Tapping my window.
So many stars up here
Unwatched,
So many
The thin ones
They blend
Like lucent lace
Hanging between
Fatter stars, flanked
By a waxing moon,
Bright like lime lite
Dripping with applause
From a crescendo of cicada’s.
I felt stage struck,
Awesome, alive,
My light feet
On the cool terracotta
Tingled and tapped,
Felt like a kid so much
I hardly noticed
The two conjoined young
Bodies undulating rhythmically, rapping
Their eternal tune
On the loose slat sunbed
Behind the barbeque.
Then I knew,
I knew they weren’t for me
The two o’clock stars,
It was for them , all of them
Such a clean vital light,
An intimate light
I was suddenly alone
With my nakedness,
Stealing something not mine.
Awkwardly, I left the stage
And slid back to bed
And dreamed of 1982
And my own
Two o’clock stars.

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