CAGED BEAST
[1ON, ot whatever it is that walks the measured cage, is a symbol surely shorn, made-over: stalks its own depending shadow like lost evil savoured once and dreamed again; denied. No tawny king on terrace of High Tor, but Samson circumscribed-pride &tinding the mills, brought low to bear / a dim domestic burden. Caged or whatever it is you call this indrawn power so monstrous when it raged, is something analysed from tormer bliss / to be content and rational: but still intent, its impulse bids it pace the inches of restriction--the grey walltruss between anger and the master’s face. Lion that was once the menace and the power strange as free-will; oh, pity therm should rise great winds to smash your disciplinary tower,
release the monarch in your exiled eyes.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 10
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133CAGED BEAST New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 10
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