Clockwise Cat Strikes Back
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A man drowned on an Acapulco beach that morning<br />
& silence now screams<br />
Into the light of day<br />
At the bottom of the room<br />
Where the feathers of the storm<br />
Are handed out by hands<br />
Who only know more hands<br />
On the great ship of morning<br />
Of the storm-clouds a-storming<br />
Where the noontide screams<br />
But at least can make a little room<br />
For the next day<br />
& so it goes day after day after day<br />
Until someone finally hands<br />
You your obituary in a side-room<br />
Of morning<br />
Where screams<br />
The helicopter bugs in the mind-storm<br />
Great day of the morning!<br />
A hundred hands a hundred-thousand screams<br />
Where the room trembles in the pullulating storm.<br />
Author bio: Kurt Cline is Associate Professor of English and World Comparative<br />
Literature, National Taipei University of Technology. Poems and stories have appeared,<br />
most recently, in BlazeVOX, Danse Macabre, Shotglass Review, Wilderness House<br />
Literary Review, HuesoLoco, Apocrypha and Abstractions, Black Scat, and <strong>Clockwise</strong><br />
<strong>Cat</strong>. Scholarly articles have appeared in Anthropology of Consciousness; Concentric,<br />
Beatdom Literary Journal; and Comparative Civilizations and Cultures: Journal of the<br />
Jean Gebser Society.
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