Roaring Pigeon Cave


Tame Troutcloud musters, seeking interface and eats; one tests the school, and seeks a new direction we stroll, seeking new directions also, and tossing crumbs of life to fetching surface mouths; we are of this cycle. Back, poolback, out of common view, the lowered cavemouth yawns for Earth awaking. Pale pink phlash, and phlox are massed about my feet; a step, and glory -- phlox are magicked, feet dissolve in cloud of flitterblossom, made eager, clinging butterflies by spring and eye and wish; I am surrounded and adored and utterly unrecorded. The cave is roaring, pulsing, as if some lost biker slept in water overnight, and tries to kick the liquid life back into sodden motor; quick snap-flap miracle, and a whitened Thing hangs in the air, spread-winged, and pinned against support I cannot see; he has emerged, to survey the Kingdom waiting without what I know now is Roaring Pigeon Cave. What set of chaos' accident has made a perfect chamber for bird to say, "Come wiss me to my Cave, My Dear, for I am ze only roaring Pigeon in ze World?" He has the advantage of Mating Magick. I hear her roar within and he snaps out of existence in a prouder spatter of Roaring-Pigeon wing. It is a Day of Springing pleasant things. It is a Glory and a Lifeing Thing.


©  Copyright, 2000; Malcolm Beckett


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