Shadow Play
July 21, 2015 at 12:21 p.m.
“Shadow Play”
Shadowplay in my memory of Japan youth,
slap puppets tell ancient flicker myths
to shamisen, drum, and singsong voice.
I laugh a child giggle. and chance to
Shakuhatchi flute know Yes.
I am alive in Shadowplay,
waiting future living memories.
Shadowplay a cardiac event,
when ultrasound reveals a timed
angioplasty and metal stent.
I gasp. I am amazed to watch.
To watch in real time revealed.
In ultrasound relived My Life Saved.
I am Alive in Shadowplay,
My chance to remember Laughing Youth.
And now I wait on lines with pen in hand.
Shadowplay gave chance for remembrance.
I recall my candle flicker chance child laugh.
Casually I watch my ultrasound beating heart.
Salvation is a play. Yes,
a play of memories and puppetry,
a play of angioplasty and shadows.
My Shadowplay I now conclude in Poem.
My Touch of Aging Death. My child revealed laugh.
My Cardio candled Shadowplay reveals such.
Yes again in Shadow and Light I Live.
Patrick McCabe, Seattle poet, June 30, 2015, Ballard, Ishriverland.
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