Juan Ramon Jimenez wrote
Music-
a naked woman
running mad through the pure night!
Although I would say this
Woman-
a naked music
running mad through the pure night!
21 July 2012
19 July 2012
Sheepfold Superimposed Over Garden
How to levitate:
crawl yourself
beneath new sunset
floorboards, candles,
wormwood.
There were iconic stones
piled out there,
but they fell.
Put forth
new accidents:
a fire climbs up your sleeve.
Pep rallies
in the bloodstream.
Aortic ticker tape
and periodic baritone
of young campfires.
Shakespeare gives a thumbs up
from the side
of a beer bottle.
No spine,
no ribs,
no function.
Assorted cookies
and danish.
Everybody learns
to hate
to be
their father/mother.
A brother pins you
to the dirt
and dangles a worm
in your face.
Sorry.
Lost without conversation.
Vivid
the contours
of the lucky terrors you survived,
your house burning down,
a windswept meadow
of fire. This fire
stored
in a compartment
of the mind
visited by the page.
Everybody learns
to drink.
The cities hold fantasies
which will never involve us.
Life is a series of defeats
and learning to be
a good sport
about it.
You will never
smell the bouquets
of the finest women.
The week snaps
back around.
Snivel.
But there is a road
that can never be filled.
The road is waiting,
empty,
for your legs.
A scribbled river winds
through itself,
each drop wandering
down the highway
of the whole.
The cities run on.
The cities.
crawl yourself
beneath new sunset
floorboards, candles,
wormwood.
There were iconic stones
piled out there,
but they fell.
Put forth
new accidents:
a fire climbs up your sleeve.
Pep rallies
in the bloodstream.
Aortic ticker tape
and periodic baritone
of young campfires.
Shakespeare gives a thumbs up
from the side
of a beer bottle.
No spine,
no ribs,
no function.
Assorted cookies
and danish.
Everybody learns
to hate
to be
their father/mother.
A brother pins you
to the dirt
and dangles a worm
in your face.
Sorry.
Lost without conversation.
Vivid
the contours
of the lucky terrors you survived,
your house burning down,
a windswept meadow
of fire. This fire
stored
in a compartment
of the mind
visited by the page.
Everybody learns
to drink.
The cities hold fantasies
which will never involve us.
Life is a series of defeats
and learning to be
a good sport
about it.
You will never
smell the bouquets
of the finest women.
The week snaps
back around.
Snivel.
But there is a road
that can never be filled.
The road is waiting,
empty,
for your legs.
A scribbled river winds
through itself,
each drop wandering
down the highway
of the whole.
The cities run on.
The cities.
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