AucklandPoetry.com presents Poet Resident JAN OSKAR HANSEN on http://OSKAR.AUCKLANDPOETRY.COM

Friday, February 20, 2009

cabin fever

Cabin Fever.

 

The firewood in the hearth hiss and smoke

refuse to burn bright, these limbs of a giant

will not heat my cabin this winter evening.

I must have done something wrong, don’t

know what. I have doused the flaccid limbs

with alcohol, drank some too, now the fire

is burning bright with an inner ice blue tint.

From the floor looking up I see the roof is

on fire. Someone knocks on my door, I’m

a pirate burning my ship, there is rum for

everyone; for the dreary I’ve diet coke and

for the loony there is low fat yogurt.      

 

 

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