Songs of Eretz Poetry Review is pleased to present “Kowtow to the Jump” by Jonathan Dick. Dick is from Toronto, Canada. He has had over thirty poems published in various literary journals. Follow him on Twitter: @jjdickyboy.
Kowtow to the Jump
Jonathan Dick
“I will shorten your life
everyday, as soaring
humans tumble about
in a whirling sort of
fiction.”
Help me, as we jump
together as one dying
humanhood, from pole to pole
we shall lift up our bodies
and pronounce the end of
paradigm,
this will be a fact of
science, meting out
our lives by a collective
happenstance
and not the individual’s
forlorn eye.
Come, let us night, we must
jump
as a satiated personhood,
lifting our legs
to our chests, exulting in
the name of air,
this is the time we move,
move it hard,
move the earth with brutal
cooperation.
Come, let us day, if we
jumped together,
like ants surrounding a
rotten
orange, we will shake our
world
as hard as ever, as unified
jumpers watching the
universe
cower at our stirring feet.
Poet’s Notes: This poem is a desperate plea by the narrator to
change the world around him, but he realizes he can only do so with the help
(and hindrance) of the whole world. Change may be sparked by one small match
but needs help to grow bigger.
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