MIRRORS: The Aborigine Poetry of Eldred Van-Ooy by Justin Spring - HTML preview

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The Witnesses Log

 

IX

 

Some of the Visitors

have large flat eyes

like the tails of comets.

We can see them

in the corners

and the byways

of our minds,

watching us.

The Dreamers say

the Visitors with large flat eyes

are useless to us,

that they have come

to kill us.

The other Visitors

are different.

If you ask them,

they will let you hold their eyes.

If you do,

you’ll see things

you can’t describe.

Not to anyone.