Drawn
He who felt drawn to women
was for a long time surprised
that women felt drawn to men
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Café
The ladies at the table next to mine
are window-shopping the mortician's display
with the taste of sweet cream
from a mouthful of pastry
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Easter Monday
(for A & J)
20 years since their father died
two grown-up sons
at his grave with a rake & a spade
the elder one recalls a boozy night
he fell asleep between the grave’s
short dense trimmed junipers
a pillow his obscure father’s stone
awoke freezing here 5 am
fog over the pond
where the younger brother bathed as a kid
fog over the graves along the slopes
they have no memories of their father
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Three Nights
*
(inspiration)
I want to open the door
and throw myself down
the mountain we live on top of
merely fall through the darkness
and fall until wings are growing out
*
(imitation)
Down
in the highway viaduct
the voices of the dead are heard
loudly roaring
as thoughts we are
as cursory
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A Hand Begins To Talk
A hand begins to talk
a composer's hand
searching for the tit
up a narrow staircase of music full of go
*
This soft piece of a wet-nurse
hangs heavily nutritious down in the morning darkness
all faithful fans drawn towards it with force
this yellow sorcery milk of music
*
Blow horn long morning
a long horn's morning wind
easy tones of air for wings to beat
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interpretation of Odin's hanging
Odin hung
& all the following Old Norse mouthpieces of Odin
hung on Hávamál's Speech of the High One's windy
constantly verdant world tree
Yggdrasil
Ygg: 'the terrifying'
one of Odin's epithets
& drasil: 'horse'
hung pierced by a spear like a rider hit in battle
down from the horseback
& at the same time
at the same time like a fetus
for nine days with its head downwards
in a womb
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Salsa
Who’s still hunting four-legged Words down entertainment streets?
anyhow with hesitant ancient hands some picked up drinking
numerous legs out for more wine / drunken pets’ voices
the traffic sign says
CAUTION
the police are
sleeping ahead
*
So many voices / so many streets
eyes in the open entrance of adventure
an inner city of feeling / green desire’s space
a refuge all lushly verdant caresses
thrilled animals up the flourishing steps of desire
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