THE LADY OF HAVENOT
AND THE SEVEN WHISPERS
the first whisper comes in off the estuary
where she sits fretting in her high tower,
it tells her of the call of wild geese
on their migratory flight across the tides,
the second whisper comes as the two moons set
over the horizon leaving only a crown of scattered stars,
it tells her of the desert stillness
where nothing moves but sand-grains
caught and thrown in the sirocco,
the third whisper comes after she’s eaten a supper
of pomegranate and clear heather-honey,
and she’s brushed her hair at the mirror a hundred times
and repaired to her bed chamber to sleep,
it tells her of a lone galleon that sails beyond
the edge of the world where the machineries
of heaven can be heard in celestial murmur,
the fourth whisper comes as she closes her eyes
and sleep dances around the corners of her mind,
it calls to her of freedom and desire,
the merging of flesh in a sweet tenderness
of poetry, wine and madness dressed only
in a garment of kisses for she needs nothing more,
the fifth and sixth whispers come in dream sendings
on landscapes of sunflower blossoms drunk on pollen
and trees are so tall they scrape patterns on the moons,
the seventh whisper is a single word,
but when she wakes it’s gone, and she aches at its loss,
she wanders for a week and a day until
she meets it again stooped at the village stile,
she holds her breath for it to speak
knowing the word will be either
love, or death
Published in print and online at:
‘UTOPIA SCIENCE FICTION Vol.1 Issue 2 (October)’
(USA – October 2020)
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