Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
PENUMBRA CADIZ
The white city is only white from above
fuzz of antennae point to the mainland
like baby swallows waiting for regurgitated flies
when empire’s entropy erupts in substance
where bells merge without melting
where washing dries without being seen
we love each other without admission
in the Cadiz of the mind
cream vanity self absorbed
Let endless verticals stack up as fortification
against your most Nordic interiority
enough for the eye to conquer
the running rage Flamenco
where woman becomes bull
in the most controlled of dances
anger and pain are stepped and stamped
over and over
for Toby Matthiesen
The white city is only white from above
fuzz of antennae point to the mainland
like baby swallows waiting for regurgitated flies
when empire’s entropy erupts in substance
where bells merge without melting
where washing dries without being seen
we love each other without admission
in the Cadiz of the mind
cream vanity self absorbed
Let endless verticals stack up as fortification
against your most Nordic interiority
enough for the eye to conquer
the running rage Flamenco
where woman becomes bull
in the most controlled of dances
anger and pain are stepped and stamped
over and over
for Toby Matthiesen
Copyright Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll 2013