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I sit in the black leather chair meditating on the plume of smoke that rises in the air, riffling the pages of my life
Old bag of bones upside down, what are you searching for in poetry, in meditation?
The man giving birth in the dark has died & come back to life again, is stretching out his arms
Letting the mind go, letting the pen, the breath, the movement of images in & ou… of the mouth go calm, go rhythmic
Little egg, little nub, full complement of fingers, toes, little rose blooming
I try to keep falling in love if only to keep death at bay.
Cement up to the neck & my head packed with unsaid words. A gullet full of pebbles, a mouth
Most beautiful of poisons, border-plant, wearing your small green cowl, little friar, little murderer, aconitine flows
A delicate border. A nonexistent… The train obligingly dissolves in… The G.I. next to me is talking wa… I don’t ‘know the Asian mind,’ he… Moving through old arguments.
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye– kissing the air,
Broken ivories playing the blue piano of the sea. We have come
Dearest man-in-the-moon, ever since our lunch of cheese & moonjuice on the far side of the sun, I have walked the craters of New…
The great bed of the world arching over graves over Babi Yar with its multitude of bones, with battalions of screams
In the chest is caged bat who seeks escape through the mouth. He flaps his wings & the molars shiver.
Endless duplication of lives and o… —Theodore Roethke I have known the imperial power of… the awesome indifference of recept… I have been intimidated by desk &a…