Closing My Eyes on the Up Escalator

• Closing My Eyes on the Up Escalator

Closing My Eyes on the Up Escalator

I think it was on level three
I was thinking what do penguins dream
Do they theorize and wonder
Who it is who's shrinking the ice?

Snagged my jacket on a potted tree
I wondered what it thinks of me
Pencil and paper
And smelling of sugar and spice

Closing my eyes
On the up escalator
For the feeling alone

Is that tree up all night crying
Its fine little roots trying and trying
To remember the sounds
Of the songs of its place in the woods?

On level three there's camping supplies
A fibre glass penguin on the outside
Dressed in a jacket
Half price with a zipper and hood

Closing my eyes
On the up escalator
For the feeling alone

I think it was on level three
I was thinking what do penguins dream
While their love is away
Deep in the treacherous seas

Don't fall, or your jacket
Mamma once said
Might snag and suck you into the stairs
I'll never see you again and you will never see me

Closing my eyes
On the up escalator
For the feeling alone

Closing my eyes
On the up escalator
I don't think I'll ever come down

© Brendan Bonsack
April 2020

1. Not Leaning, Not reaching
2. After the Bee
3. What Should We Tell the Kids?
4. Out There Breaching Quarantine
5. I Wish I Could Tell you
6. Closing My Eyes on the Up Escalator
7. A Natural Selection
8. Their Joy
9. Everybody Hungers (2020)
10. Tell Me About the Revolution
11. Sing for You
12. When Fever Comes

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