by Kerfe Roig
Endless Time Stables the Horses
I’m resurrecting the flower & it keeps dying, its bud’s
like the eye of an eidolon measuring time or the mouth
of rust on pylon in a city long gone or a copper coin
in a crevice of concrete or a becket
broken from the sea chest heavy with the sailor’s thirst
or the nest of a bird that’ll never return or an urn
in the hand of a cremator who’s one with fire or gang
signs in a gloomy sky made by the taking hand
or the noose around a bronzed soul falling in spring
or a sinkhole on a passage to the genesis or a spoonful
of stereotyping in a privileged poem or a clock
hanging handless as the writing on the wall or a spiral
staircase connecting the dead & the living or a vinyl
plate of Emili Sandé songs that last a lifetime or a circle
or a cycle in the blood to live & die reborn live & die
hooves trampling flowers they live & die reborn
live & die we’re not random events or new creations
we’re wild horses that keep coming back until
endless time stables us.
Dzikamayi Chando is a Zimbabwean poet whose works have appeared in Barren, Wrongdoing, The Rising Phoenix Review, The Daily Drunk, Feral & elsewhere. His debut collection, Cremation of the Scarecrow, was published in February 2022 (Carnelian Heart Publishing).
A resident of New York City, Kerfe Roig enjoys transforming words and images into something new. Her poetry and art have been featured online by Silver Birch Press, The song is…, Pure Haiku, Visual Verse, and The Ekphrastic Review, and published in Ella@100, Incandescent Mind, the Raw Art Review, The Anthropocene Hymnal: Songs of a self-defining era and several Nature Inspiredanthologies. Follow her explorations on her blogs, https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/ (which she does with her friend Nina), and https://kblog.blog/, and see more of her work on her website http://kerferoig.com/.