CLARE ROLFE

CLARE ROLFE

SILHOUETTE OF THE OTHER

Over stated you visited frequently

You talked frequently I often looked up

Under the lamp shade

Just out of reach of the patient glow

I saw webs of daddy longlegs

They reminded me of hipsters

at St Peters station eating fly sushi rolls

In that dim light I traced the edge of shadows escaping with my finger tip

My words sat stronger than dark patches just beyond

Quietly listening

Hidden inside my stove were replies

Butted in between your frequencies

No space to breath

Leaving them to rest I watched your lips move, voice echo

I wondered when you should stop

Explanatory exploratory telling

centrifugal force

Lost in your discourse

The night was long that night

Uttering exhaustion I didnt want your story

We'd written one as ghosts with our meta data souls

Epigenetic almost not even

No narrative, a dried up waterfall

Delusional it continued,

I listened scraping dust off a vase

It rolled off smooth revealing sapphire

blue

Absorbing the light bulb's arc

Sun in the sky almost at dusk

It roused my thoughts away

so effortlessly I forgot for a moment

how shadows flirt with danger

pulling down making me run

Spilling over everything in their way

Drawing silhouettes of trees gorging

their stoic limbs and trunks

Soft whispers moving leaves

indelibly dancing so close I shiver

Making me remember we're still here

together lampstands apart

Sitting in their underglow as hostaged thieves

CL Rolfe 2018

ANONYMOUS

Night holds back

Watching

shapes lose themselves

Blind wishes escape

no name no memory

Drifting scents

flower listless

asking

Who are you

Why this way

Remember lumière froide of day

CL Rolfe © 2017

ODYSSEUS ARROW

Cherry red of dawn

Lethal unstoppable speed

An arrow of the morn

Sings to me

Moon's bard plays

Unconscious blindsight

Eschews reality confused

Lies between axes of daylight

Athene hid Odysseus

Letting truth drip as wine

Until all suitors were killed

Ignorant to grape and vine

Will that arrow one day

smash nymphs to stone

reveal spaces beyond blades

Letting us read Zeus' poems

CL Rolfe © 2017

CLARE ROLFE

CLARE ( CL) ROLFE is an Australian based self published writer. She released Ten Letters to Delacroix’s Tomb in 2016 and is currently completing a fantasy series. She continually adds to her poetry collection and is inspired by philosophy, natural environment art and the everyday.