Daughter Of The Wind

Daughter Of The Wind
© Surazeus
2024 10 23

Hidden in the file cabinet of my mind, 
letters angels and devils wrote each other 
turn into moths of restless apathy 
still stewing in toxic relationships 
and stuck with attachment issues of hope 
as they pull out their eyes with broken knives. 

Shaving off all her hair with anguished grin, 
she sneers at cardboard idol of her boyfriend 
that smiles in lobby of the concert hall 
where girls take selfies with his plastic face, 
then shouts how he left her heart on the floor 
as frog that croaks in swamp of loyal love. 

As last daughter of weeping Hecuba, 
who clutches ashes of the burning tower, 
she stands on stage in the dark smoky bar 
and recites long catalog of the dead 
whose photographs are taped on cafe wall 
though all have died or gone insane with truth. 

Trembling in field of anemones, 
softly purple in caress of dawn light, 
she wonders why the star finch on barbed wire 
explains how televisions work to prove 
the dead sweep dust of memories from homes 
to reweave shadows with spider-web words. 

As Daughter of the Wind she understands 
whispers of flowers on the meadow slope 
that call to her with ache of frantic faith 
as she washes dishes in the kitchenette 
beside the railroad tracks of travesty, 
still refusing to accept her dire fate. 

Away from temple of the crippled clown 
Chryseis escapes patriarchy of faith 
to take the scepter and the laurel crown 
back to the church destroyed by atom bombs 
where Demeter bakes bread for refugees 
who wander through ruins of paradise. 

When the shades of night are gathering green 
the owl of Minerva takes its flight 
to lead the lonely girl on misty heath 
where she invents ideal philosophy 
which formulates state of reality 
to conjure virtual model of the world. 

Offering Chryseis baked clams with cream sauce, 
Proteus presents subtle shadow play 
about the girl working in the cafe 
who wins election as state senator 
to draft laws that support the Right of Women 
to control her own reproductive choice.