"The Priestess And The Shaman" by Dee Rimbaud
Robert McLean
(1996- )Be wary of the star-bright sign
that sleep deposits in her mind:
your snoring lover will wake soon.
A pregnancy is always planned,
so rise and shine. Walk hand in handthe promenade. Accommodate
the dreams that plague your moonlight hours
that the banshees and the fates create.
Just dive right in: you can't be sure -
strange waves are breaking on her shore.In the deepest dark of the dark night
the deep dark sea offered a catch
to which you cast an untrained net,
to catch the fish that gleam and fly:
a catch for which she'd gladly die.A little death summoned small ghosts
to haunt your lifeless waterways,
this empty beach, her bloody coast -
she shook the day with her loud drum
to salute the child who had come.The sea was white. The sky was black.
A tiny ripple had grown into
a tidal wave we could not block.
We losers play a winner's game,
as babies will come all the same.
Bio:
Robert Andrew James McLean was born in Christchurch, NZ, on May 2nd, 1974, where, beside the ocean and in the sun, he still writes and lives. He was educated at Canterbury University, earning an MA in political philosophy and art theory. Beginning life under the Chinese astrological sign of the Tiger, he is somewhat unconventional and dares to resist authority. He is restless and loves freedom. He is an agnostic Lutheran in religion, a neo-modernist in literature, and an anarcho-syndicalist in politics. New Zealand's generous welfare system enables Robert to devote himself to reading and writing. His poems have also appeared in New Zealand journals and magazines, such as JAAM, Takahe, Catalyst and Poetry New Zealand.
