Bats

Words, like bats
hang upside down
clinging to the roof
of the caves of the mind.

Some slumber as though dead,
some have even dropped
to the fouled floor,
many flap furiously as
snakes slither up the wall
looming near the black exit
preying in wait to snatch
as one tries to leave
the entrance to light.

A free bat soars
to a fig tree
and savours the fruit.


shalome � 2004

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