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By Keith Wallis
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Trickster:
twin bladed
sifter of moments.
You cut and paste and superimpose,
you change and filter;
filling in gaps
or removing with surgical precision.
Hurt and harm are sent offstage
or super-trouper high lit
in the theatre of remembrance.
Was, and ought-to-be,
mingle
(with half empty glasses)
in this elbow jostling party
this crowd of witnesses
and fabricated alibi.
The touch of her or him, or this or that,
conjured by a passing scent
or half glanced fleeting sight,
spurs a smile
or panged regret.
Trickster:
double-edged
filter of fact.
Robber, villain, rearranger;
you make children of parents
and parents from children
in careless abandonment.
The storm of imagination,
in thunderous cacophony,
sieves and mixes, distils and compounds,
implodes, explodes, shouts, screams
or whispers
what might have been
or nearly was,
once upon a time.
Trickster, usurper:
your fallen veil steals reality
as your pretendered sovereignty
claims the crown
and life becomes
once
upon a time.
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