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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

corpse

inoffensive corpse
fire of sand infinitesimal city
explosion of daylight in the eyeless swimmer
through the earth's clay
you ceremony of memory
our human light burning humid human words
for a basket of subterranean abandonment
you journeyer...who sings and grows
the names of flowers in silence
our bones begin to speak for themselves without
rest
the body~tomb breaks open its rotten seed pod
surrounded by loneliness no longer
goodbye goodbye my love
of darkness and terror
goodbye my love of doubt
storms of nameless obligations
we are islands
out to sea
century by century
with our constant fervor
stone apple black earth oilstorm
goodbye my love of love and the rarified air
above

2 comments:

tara said...

Very moving, especially at and after the "goodbyes".
I did not understand "stone apple black earth oilstorm"...threw
my lull off a bit...but maybe that was right.

Thank you,
Tara

antoniozart said...

thank you. actually the one line that seemed opaque is opaque! it is imagistic writing, automatic if you will, that is just shy of any narrative relevance... it is more a sudden association of images in the spirit of the poem.
something like that. people who listen to artists should have their eyes examined...no?
:)anthony