Mosses Your Tongue

from Cat Queen, Embarking by James Jefferys

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Mosses Your Tongue

It's two o'clock in the morning and I've been asleep for three hours. I sleep early, and as they say, inspiration doesn't have a schedule. It comes without warning- it does for me, anyway.

So tastelessly, mockingly, a gripping theme, a tight rhyme scheme and a moral beam wound with a spider web thread spike into my dozing head like a grandfather, respected and loved yet with a torch in your eyes, coming to your darkened door, it's barely four but you can't ignore it.

So your dreams and mind deem it fine to find a way of slotting it into wakeful semblance, and jotting it softly into memory, tapping gently on the bed as though the creases left where your hand just was will be the proud valleys of your life's creation in the morning; baying with cattle, florid with green, ebbing with tributaries of your vanity and blood of genius; its own sun and your sun triumphantly revealing the pastures you sculpted overnight.

But they're not there, and the taste of night that mosses your tongue is all of the tunes, the words of the prophet and hearts never won.

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from Cat Queen, Embarking, released November 21, 2012

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