January 2018
Robin Helweg-Larsen
robinhelweglarsen@gmail.com
robinhelweglarsen@gmail.com
I am British-born but Bahamian-raised and, despite my name, male. My education came from good schools, hitchhiking on five continents and working all over the place. My poetry has mostly been published in the UK (Snakeskin, Ambit, etc), but also in the US (The HyperTexts, etc), Canada, Australia and India. I live in my hometown of Governor's Harbour on Eleuthera.
ON ROUSSEAU’S “THE DREAM”
I will be a flutist
Standing in the trees
With the lions and tigers
Stalking past my knees;
You, my naked lady
Languid on a couch -
Is the tiger standing,
Or is it in a crouch?
Enormous tropic blossoms
Open in the heat;
Your hand is out toward me,
The pipe I play is sweet.
You have no need to answer
If things are as they seem.
The scene will last forever,
A moment, and a dream.
I will be a flutist
Standing in the trees
With the lions and tigers
Stalking past my knees;
You, my naked lady
Languid on a couch -
Is the tiger standing,
Or is it in a crouch?
Enormous tropic blossoms
Open in the heat;
Your hand is out toward me,
The pipe I play is sweet.
You have no need to answer
If things are as they seem.
The scene will last forever,
A moment, and a dream.
"On Rousseau's 'The Dream' " was first published in The Lyric, USA (Summer, 2014).
©2018 Robin Helweg-Larsen
©2018 Robin Helweg-Larsen
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