tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790544188678823342024-03-13T04:36:45.422-07:00pandorasthiefBlackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-66353327957200382822012-11-02T10:28:00.000-07:002012-11-02T10:31:30.481-07:00Final Choices<br />
Madam of curious chaos,<br />
you are concealed in hands<br />
sliding through flesh estuaries.<br />
<br />
The sea heaps its love on<br />
as you roll with the tides,<br />
beach and bleach.<br />
<br />
You are the twin<br />
that sank before you.<br />
<br />
Evicted on the arduous<br />
western shore, you recall<br />
Asian palms, a woven prayer.<br />
<br />
And at dusk, you eclipse<br />
the artless, decaying stars.<br />
<br />
<br />Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-83664262609098063002012-03-19T20:47:00.000-07:002012-03-19T20:47:52.323-07:00oblique prayer<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">emma cannot be <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">composed<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">she injects capacities <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">of life<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">hits back <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in self destructive exposé<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">smacks <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">over the edge <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">one hand irregular <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in sorrow<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">her man<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">concerned about <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">her sanity<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">finds comfort in a bed<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">of differing grace<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">emma worships him <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">still<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">with pure oxygen inhale<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in the habit <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">of a nunnery<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div>Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-87278272760534016562011-10-24T15:17:00.000-07:002011-10-24T15:17:39.401-07:00imprints from Rosewater<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">imprints from Rosewater</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 45.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in the course of suspension </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> over</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in the act of lowering </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> down</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in the ritual that is burying</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> under</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">time becomes the staggered images </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">of someone else’s life, bleeding </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">frames over your bitter green. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">everywhere you uncover </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">a double exposure;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the thought that you </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> could </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">have been them</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> could </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">have been caught</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in a faultless Vonnegut jump</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and broken over a Dali sunrise</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">to find Picasso reading the soft, wet </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">tea leaves in your evolving cup.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">your fingers are pushing into </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the clay of tomorrow’s dawn</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">remember me</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">call my name</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">one more time</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">define me</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">refine me</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">inter me</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">until the </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> tock ing </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> tick ing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">hits the bedrock </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">of unforgiv ing craft.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-35803585230757622872011-08-12T16:23:00.002-07:002011-08-12T16:23:52.287-07:00white noise from the world's stage<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">white noise from the world's stage</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">not remembering </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the name of it</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the title</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the reward </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the application</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">he puts it on</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">thinks it on</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">moves all his thoughts </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to the place</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">that will be protected</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">he calls it </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">and it comes</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to him alone</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">slowly</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">he speaks it </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">aloud</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to any audience</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">that might find him</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">he waits</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">for the floods of winter</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">buries himself</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in withered growth</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">an immersed rattle</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">thinking</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">she might return</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">this thought touching him</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">as a wisp of air </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to his mouth</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">it keeps him alive </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in the torpor of autumn</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">his heart</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">a geode </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">of undetected splendour</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">his future</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">an uncertain wish </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">of erosion</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">hoping that </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">a wild river</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">takes his words</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to her ears</div>Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-19676489903132680372011-07-28T08:47:00.000-07:002011-07-28T08:47:03.638-07:00any other road being the same<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-CA</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">any other road being the same</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">outside a grainy wisdom,</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the highway participates</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in a penciled regression</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">between covers</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">yet to be found.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in Brando white, </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">there is a simple plan</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">formulating</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">under the guise </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">of eastern routes.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">something spills from the head.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">travels become</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">inked in the flesh.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Charley knew.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">and Sal left his sweat</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">on the fortunate mile</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">that ended it all.</div>Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-77084661702006572692010-11-21T20:20:00.002-08:002010-11-21T20:20:25.380-08:00Ivor and Leslov<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ivor and Leslov</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ivor and Leslov face each other </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">over hot coffee.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">They talk with urgency</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and no little substance.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ivor says, <i>“No, no!<span> </span>It wasn’t like that at all!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">There was snow that year</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">and the roads closed.<span> </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">We had to sleep in </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">the railyard.<span> </span>Don’t you</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">remember?”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Leslov shakes his head<i>. “No, no! </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">You are wrong.<span> </span>It was the year</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">before,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">the year Marika began coughing blood</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">and poor little Istvan was lost</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">in the North Woods.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Anyway, you were deep in the vodka then,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">how could you </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">remember</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">any of this.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A slide of disgust.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A glance of mistrust.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And finally, the slight twitch that says,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">“Yes, yes.<span> </span>We know each other</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>far too well.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Silence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The raising of mugs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sometimes,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>you have to forget.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sometimes,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>it’s best to let go.</span></div>Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-7329513583978465942010-11-21T20:10:00.002-08:002010-11-21T20:10:51.166-08:00Dearest Isabel<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dearest Isabel,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am in the tarnish of cloud we sought.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am walking in the graveyard </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">along the sea.<span> </span>I wander only the edge </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">where the questionable are buried, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">their bones crumbling at the same rate as </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the nuns resting higher up;<span> </span>Sisters</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">cradled together in encouraged sisterhood,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">seeking to define viewpoint even in death.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There are no postcards to send from here,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">no tiny stones to pick up and send to you, my</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dearest Isabel, only this small vial of soil for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>your art </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>your life</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>your breath.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Though you disappear for years at a time,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">there is no one who knows me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in the hidden ways you do</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in my tarnish of cloud,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dearest Isabel.</span></div>Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-10867923803547008852010-11-21T20:07:00.001-08:002010-11-21T20:17:37.113-08:00Heavily Doctored<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Heavily Doctored</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Line 1 please,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"> holding –</span></i></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">MY god did you see </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">THAT?</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">last week there were </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">three in here like </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">THAT.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">That’s the real </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">shit…</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Line 2 please,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"> one moment –</span></i></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> internal dialogue </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">SNAPS </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">mousetrap mouth </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">shut</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">perform </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">ORAL sur-jury </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">on the </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">weighting room</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">(he’s your brOTHER?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Line 3 please,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"> dropped that call –</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Are you sleeping on the </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Job</span></b><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">patients reclined</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">credit declined</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">they were just </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">chequeing IN</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">GOD help her </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">check OUT</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">(It’s all in the eyes, see?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Line 1 please, </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"> still holding –</span></i></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">someone cut him off</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">got enough tablets </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">(tabula rasa)</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">erase – erase</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">no messages accepted on this number…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Line 2 please,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">infinite silence –</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Fuck…</span></b></div>Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-16560112286907861692009-05-18T14:47:00.001-07:002009-05-18T14:47:51.281-07:00air(craft)<span style="font-weight:bold;">air(craft)</span><br /><br />the interval of country<br />seen high and in obscurity<br />while standing unsupported <br />over the portal of <br />an arctic kiss<br /><br />each frozen detail<br />drawn as small crevasses<br />into your skin<br /><br />and the carbon patrons<br />are awake, pensive<br />tips of fingers pressing<br />against sight<br />laying aside clear damage<br />of sky<br /><br />the wingtip tragedy<br />slices turbulence <br />and disintegrates timeBlackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-91401172666817903862008-12-28T22:44:00.001-08:002008-12-28T22:47:13.246-08:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1BLD1GWcfSw/SVhyNSdmMaI/AAAAAAAAABQ/SbkE32UsVbU/s1600-h/davinci.JPG"></a><br /><br /><strong>Something Like Cimmerian Darkness</strong><br /><br /><br />You plead me give you<br />the membrane,<br />and are surprised at our<br />fleshless, orgiastic<br />communion.<br /><br />We are bathing in muddy rivers<br />which run upstream.<br /><br />Do you dare change yourself<br />into a molting form?<br />Will you reply to the wind of<br />otherways?<br />It calls you to feed on your own<br />threshold heart.<br /><br />To answer is perilous.<br /><br />Come! Make love to your<br />dark creature self, caress<br />the inner salt and kiss<br />your coiled deceiver .<br /><br />Embrace it all!<br /><br />In changing day to night<br />In living counterclockwise<br />In stepping through the mirror<br />In changing night to day<br /><br />You have set fire to your<br />self-constructed soul<br />and nothing in you will abide<br />this brute ladder of longing.<br /><br />You are an inherited abomination<br />and too intoxicated to look away.<br /><br />You plead me tear away<br />the membrane,<br />and are dismayed at our<br />individuated, simplistic<br />postmortem.Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-56668229132532383192008-12-24T12:08:00.000-08:002008-12-24T12:09:44.512-08:00Antidote<strong>Antidote</strong><br /><br />Water snake, you slide between my thighs<br />and the driftwood fork of you <br />beds splinters in my flesh;<br />there is no recourse to this action.<br /><br />I trace the pattern of these dead things,<br />pleasant punctures of serpentine grace,<br />sharp arrows of self-righteousness.<br />Quilled, I slip down, spine to stone,<br />send my hands trailing <br />liquid fingers to the riverside.<br /><br />All winter you slept under me,<br />coiling, uncoiling,<br />torpor ridden and ice burning.<br />When the green shoots split your sides<br />you woke hungry for the river,<br />and twisting out, thread your sinew<br />through the stones.<br /><br />Water snake, you sprout legs,<br />slowly they emerge,<br />unfolding like waking spiders;<br />each a jointed complaint to your belly,<br />and you scuttle sideways<br />rolling hardboiled eyes <br />at the drowning moon.<br /><br />I, touching the current,<br />take up the water line,<br />gather it to my breast and swallow<br />this hot pebble left on my tongue.<br />I watch you flounder in the rippling;<br />spider twigs scrabbling against<br />the red scales of your demise.<br /><br />Under patient moon, I pull out<br />each peculiar fragment; <br />plant them on the shore where they bud<br />their own skitterish legs<br />and weep themselves <br />into the mossy night.<br /><br />I touch my fingertips to these<br />raised welts on my thighs, <br />perfect points of release, <br />and cover them in spruce pitch and ashes.<br />This life blood smoldering,<br />I exhale, and cup the open sky.Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-18014927082056274622008-11-30T21:55:00.002-08:002008-11-30T22:06:50.821-08:00Trouble in Paradise<strong>Trouble in Paradise</strong><br /><br />There is gunfire<br /> in the garden;<br /> a single shot <br /> ringing out<br /> to mark the passage<br /><br />of some delicate temptation.<br /><br />There is gunfire<br /> in the garden;<br /> and he licks the salt<br /> from lips wrapped<br /><br />tightly about the barrel.<br /><br />There is gunfire<br /> in the garden;<br /> tart splattering passion,<br /><br />two unclothed and innocent.<br /><br />There is gunfire<br /> in the garden;<br /> one walking away <br /> covered in satisfaction<br /><br />considering himself God.Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579054418867882334.post-85184256907454828082008-06-20T19:26:00.000-07:002008-06-20T19:32:16.329-07:00The Despair<strong>The Despair</strong><br /><br />Here, at the meeting of land and sea,<br />I find nothing new washed ashore.<br />I pick my way on the long stretch of stones<br />walking in solitude, salt stinging my lips<br />cracked by the wind’s relentless beating.<br /><br />Is it time to wade into you,<br />sea that temps me with such sorrowed sigh?<br />You longingly touch my feet leaving<br />damp kisses of afflicted charm.<br />You bestow these like untouched hosts.<br /><br />The shore stretches, widens,<br />it beckons my brooding mind to follow,<br />further still, far, far, I wander,<br />with shadowed gulls trailing, watching.<br />Calling out with mottled stillness, they deride my soul.<br /><br />The sun filters cold, yellow and contemptuous,<br />through twisted, storm cowed trees.<br />It brings my eyes to tears, the salt of my body<br />departing, like questions remaining unanswered,<br />and falling, to be diluted by the rising tide.<br /><br />I am flung back from contemplative reason<br />by the pricking sleet racing needles across the water.<br />It hits my skin with pointed precision, and pain,<br />that is mortal and fleeting, washes through me.<br />My feet are deep in sand as I watch the sea roll in.<br /><br />I see the spit reaching out to the blurred horizon,<br />and there, a figure, mad, wind whipped and racing<br />stops to turn and reach for me with spider fingers.<br />A moment of fluid compulsion drenches the air,<br />the half-dead embrace of chilled need shudders about me.<br /><br />My hands reach back to meet this despair,<br />and the frozen rain shreds the flesh from bone as I watch,<br />transfixed by the undoing of corporeal illusion.<br />To tendon, to bone, to dust and release.<br />What holds me together now? Desire, passion, fear.<br /><br />I bleed promises on the shore,<br />till the sea rises with crimson lips<br />and kisses my spirit with terrible pleasure.Blackbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00488646900783411784noreply@blogger.com1