Frenzy’s Flash Feature #9

Welcome To Frenzy’s Flash Feature!

Your fortnightly Poetry/Photo Combo with Greg Mackie

Poet, dreamer, self-confessed idiot. Addicted to chocolate and crisps, he regrets having cancelled his last two dental appointments. Attempts to write stuff. 

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We hope you enjoy this  ‘Frenzy’s Flash Feature’ entry. Greg will be be back with another great combination on Thursday 9th May 2013

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ACCIDENTAL WILDERNESS

(Drowning in the Ozarks)

by Greg Mackie

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First, were destroyed

the homes 

and the factories

and the churches –

then the railways, 

ripped up,

and the trees,

torn down.

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Damned –

the river rose

and broke its banks

and flooded the fields

and drowned the valley –

and my memories, too,

were mixed into the mud.

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How many times

did I stand

on the edge of my mind,

watching my childhood 

shining pristine –

in a man-made Atlantis

of necessary nostalgia?

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How many times 

did I drown 

in that lake of memories – 

so thick, 

so quick,

to drag me down?

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Stubborn, 

as the wild flowers 

and the weeds 

and the long grasses

and the persevering plants –

I have become 

an accidental wilderness,

of unfinished stories 

and shifting sentiments

and dislocated desires.

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And though wild animals 

may wander, carelessly, 

through my long grasses – 

and though they may drink,

greedily, 

from my purest waters –

I too am wild, 

and as the wildest of accidents –

I will prevail.

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