Anna Rugis
Lucifuga
               flee from this light
                              to Cuba
to the caves
which absorb memory
because it stinks and shimmers
like dead fish in the shallows
                              millions of them
the killing blast a slo mo explosion
of ignorance and revelry
               to dark matter
and filtered
like water through limestone
no ransom no future
               to disarray
sunk and strewn
Love the Calculator
when possessions consort
in the absence of their owners
as if to counterfeit events
that haven’t happened
as if it’s possible
to spin out lives
in impossible realms
intentions/inattentions
enough to finance
an act of will in one world
a willing act in another
Carriers
ones with ideas
               and keys
and colours
that flow from their brushes
as they need them to startle
with counterpoint and timbre
their improvisations
               Corelli, Corea
sheet-music in a high wind
float and reach
up to outcrops
beneath glowering mountains
               their progressions
like old folk tunes carried forward
flatten and roll up neatly
behind their heels
always onward always
delivery driven
they know ways to get places
and trailing behind them
               hyenas
with blood on their chops
wait for night to fall
Anna Rugis's poems have been included in Poetry Aotearoa, JAAM, brief, Broadsheet, Snorkel, Takahe, Poetry NZ, Catalyst, LYNX magazine (USA), and International Literary Quarterly, UK.
She also writes songs and musicals with environmental themes for children and is a former backup singer for Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, and The Kinks. She has recorded 10 CDs of original music including Reconciliation, Cave Songs, Traffic in Gold and Light As.
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Lucifuga
               flee from this light
                              to Cuba
to the caves
which absorb memory
because it stinks and shimmers
like dead fish in the shallows
                              millions of them
the killing blast a slo mo explosion
of ignorance and revelry
               to dark matter
and filtered
like water through limestone
no ransom no future
               to disarray
sunk and strewn
Love the Calculator
when possessions consort
in the absence of their owners
as if to counterfeit events
that haven’t happened
as if it’s possible
to spin out lives
in impossible realms
intentions/inattentions
enough to finance
an act of will in one world
a willing act in another
Carriers
ones with ideas
               and keys
and colours
that flow from their brushes
as they need them to startle
with counterpoint and timbre
their improvisations
               Corelli, Corea
sheet-music in a high wind
float and reach
up to outcrops
beneath glowering mountains
               their progressions
like old folk tunes carried forward
flatten and roll up neatly
behind their heels
always onward always
delivery driven
they know ways to get places
and trailing behind them
               hyenas
with blood on their chops
wait for night to fall
Anna Rugis's poems have been included in Poetry Aotearoa, JAAM, brief, Broadsheet, Snorkel, Takahe, Poetry NZ, Catalyst, LYNX magazine (USA), and International Literary Quarterly, UK.
She also writes songs and musicals with environmental themes for children and is a former backup singer for Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, and The Kinks. She has recorded 10 CDs of original music including Reconciliation, Cave Songs, Traffic in Gold and Light As.
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