Lucy Basner (BAZ)
Artemesia Art
A portfolio of artistic and other creative work, a spiritual and political manifesto. An insight into the Mind of an Anarchist, Madman and Poet.
'The Dinosaur'
Who art thou
Oh tiny tender
Little bird
Of night
Equinox pearl
Didactic diamond
Spread fingers
Legs of a lizard
Pink pussy cat
Tell me
Did you begin
Beyond before
Mississippi mud?
Lark in night
Legs arching
Diving
White line between
Black and black
The Lion
Fierce he strikes
and down his gullet
gobbles
the morsels of his regard
lazily he lies replete
the tawny mane shakes
like the nod of Zeus
catlike comfort stretching claws
to mark the meaning
behind the feast
my flattery is held between the massive paws
and my desire flutters in his grip
the little mouse nibbles at the net of love
so that the raging tyrant
might remain unbound
Fly Away
I sit, smoking
A van blocks my view
But for the treetops
Black against the sky
​
There at the top
The very tipmost top
Perch a multitude of tiny birds
Suddenly
They fly
Fly away
​
(Those tiny birds)