02-18-2012, 04:18 AM
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Location: Hull
Last Online: 03-10-2012 10:42 AM
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fireflies
An autistic boy drowned and the sea
dreamed him back into being. The boy
used the moon as a drum and the rhythms
of the water. Four fireflies arrived
they brought projections of Gandhi,
Buddha, Napoleon and Genghis Khan. The
fireflies flew in a circular cadence
Buddha and Gandhi stepped into the
middle leaving Napoleon and Khan to
witness the advance of their wars and
bloodshed replayed. The two sages
clothed a dead tree with the skin of
war casualties, a raven with eyes of
red and a robin with eyes of black
led the watch over the fruit that grew.
The autistic boy waited for the fruit to
fall, the two birds heard a call and left.
A bearded carpenter helped the boy lift the
fruit into a basket-from the tree he built
a boat. At sea the carpenter cut two apples
into segments and ate-he dreamed about fragments
that formed the moon and earth and as if giving
birth he sweated and screamed-three inquisitive
seagulls hovered. After reaching dry land the
carpenter constructed a stage from the boat and
acted in a play with tyrants from every age. They
were directed by an unseen author turning the pages
of a distant script-the autocrats became the audience
and watched the carpenter perform with saints and
mystics- dictators received revelation and wrote pages
of a script-. the bearded man became a spectator as
saints and dictators performed together
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