Christopher Columbus
Interviewed by Hieronymus Bosch
on His Return from the New World
“Winged creatures came with the dark,
their human faces cast in the features
of people I knew and loved.
Subtly transformed, they seemed reborn.
Their leathery wings
creaked like horse harness
and the “Splat!” of their excrement
was a slow drum beaten to a gibberish
march of dream after dream.
What could they portend?
My sister, nose stretched to beak;
my brother, lost at sea,
his eye teeth now enlarged
to a vampire’s fangs.
Each nightmare drew something
dark from my past, dressed it in fiendish garb,
and flew it with a guide-line:
a kite’s umbilical cord attached to the shadows
shifting above my bed.”
rogermoorepoet 
Brilliant… I would loved to be interviewed by Bosch.
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After that last post of yours, I think Hieronymus Bosch would love to interview YOU, Mr. Cake. In the garden of earthly delights!
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That would be great. I would love to have a dinner party with Bosch, De Sade, Lee Miller, Man Ray and a few others.
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It’s a great party game: who would you invite for dinner? I did Jean Anouilh’s Pauvre Bitos for French A level. Quite spooky. I’d like to have supper with Quevedo’s girl-friend since nobody knows to whom he dedicated his poems! Both interesting and an academic coup. Of course, if it really was the Queen …
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That would be a coup.
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Indeed it would. Mind you, if she was a prostitute, as some think, then it might be a “Coo!” I’d be a winner either way.
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A lot of great dynasties have been founded by courtesans so I am
Sure she would be interesting.
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The “splat” of their excrement…yep, I can see, hear and smell that one.
I like the imagery of the Kite’s umbilical cord also. Really interesting…
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Thanks, Tanya. Lots of seagulls round here. Shade your eyes when you look skywards. Your big day tomorrow!
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Lol…I’m covering my eyes, Roger…
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