Cradle of the Wallaby

crawl up the walls, struggling

shape-shifting hyper-terrestrial

twisted-eyed amphibious energy

reversed in broken reflections

of a distant cosmic dark.

the frog, as opposed to the toad,

the Eastern man hums

inside.

in each is this like need for

acceleration, fastlane,

top-speed transcendental

upward climb.

the fourth rung in the

exponential monkey ladder is

to turn the doppelganger

part in each of us out

from burning negatively,

stewing deep inside.

to reunite the archetypal

gods and goddesses,

brothers and sisters,

create myth from illusions

that the past tries to pull

away.