Oceanic spume lit
by your eyes glistens
like thick snow in sunlight
Blinding Buying time
Burying rhymes in a
nearby park a poet's voice
blows in the Autumn wind
throughout the pasturage
Flintlocked tongue
Benjamin Britten spliffs
of ear-gate melodies
My hopes are high (a blank
webpage appears
in front of my eyes
says "Page introuvable"
My purpose is to dogmatise
the rules of translation
"Ride out" like Don Quixote
& howl like a coyote
Face like a butcher's block
My love for you was once
against the stones of grave irony
fossilized like losing one's
sense of color like looking at
a rainbow & mistaking it for
hollow piping A poem to
stretch to infinity shrunken down
into "a drop of water
from the belly of a sturgeon"
It's mid-September
celestial sparks of memory
the heat still rages
& burns my voice
before I utter a word
9.13.2010
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Science moves to the back-burner
as arctic crystals maneuver
achingly into vast ocean-snooze
(oblomovshchina)
Blood pressure Heartbeat rising
while standing in front of famous paintings
Intensest spell
Too many people with half-disciplined eye
but aye Genre dissipates
& that would be a great quote to have cut
on my tombstone Where can I buy an
authentication key for my wow?
"War helps us to love more" is a lie
Mel(waukee) & I comment'd
about berries in bowls
¹she remark'd of a wine-drunk bird
singing to the face of the moon
²she would rather be a bee
than a withering huckleberry
Me like a cannonball buzzing fleets
Should the wise ask for reasons?
One thing for certain
is that all things appear primitive
to those that are busy nursing their
selfish desires with fever'd visions
Noggin noise smug a sighting
of cabbage or wait no that is
that is someone holding ambergris
Sympatique daydreaming
developing like a ripe film negative
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¹in a birdcage by the bowl of huckleberries ("a crashing like Hiroshima Day").
²honey from blood ("a vampire bee, especially").
as arctic crystals maneuver
achingly into vast ocean-snooze
(oblomovshchina)
Blood pressure Heartbeat rising
while standing in front of famous paintings
Intensest spell
Too many people with half-disciplined eye
but aye Genre dissipates
& that would be a great quote to have cut
on my tombstone Where can I buy an
authentication key for my wow?
"War helps us to love more" is a lie
Mel(waukee) & I comment'd
about berries in bowls
¹she remark'd of a wine-drunk bird
singing to the face of the moon
²she would rather be a bee
than a withering huckleberry
Me like a cannonball buzzing fleets
Should the wise ask for reasons?
One thing for certain
is that all things appear primitive
to those that are busy nursing their
selfish desires with fever'd visions
Noggin noise smug a sighting
of cabbage or wait no that is
that is someone holding ambergris
Sympatique daydreaming
developing like a ripe film negative
_______________________________________________________________
¹in a birdcage by the bowl of huckleberries ("a crashing like Hiroshima Day").
²honey from blood ("a vampire bee, especially").
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