Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 2, Number 2. November 2019. ISSN: 2581-7094
Something waits at your feet’s track
(for
my brother Raven, 27 September, 1965 – 7 August, 2019)*
glossy
black
feathers
rise and fall
like coal dust
damp
wind
child
of a swollen sea
cold
running through us…
chains
unclasped and left empty
in
the blue where they pretend to wade
in a
poem’s
sleeping
voice
in a
dream
we
will remember
in a
prayer
filled
with memories
that
own no words
beams
of light drag to shores where fate
answers
eyes
alive from the cracking ice
there
something
waits at your feet’s track…
the
last air to breathe…
the
last wishes…
(pretoria,
10 august 2019)
* Raven Aflakete was a poet, filmmaker and arts
educator. Originally from San Francisco, California, he relocated to Ireland
where he carved out a name for himself as a dynamic performer and ardent art
enthusiast. He drowned in the Baltic Sea while on holiday in Lithuania.