Thursday, November 04, 2004

The moon was not/ forever tragedy

The moon was not/ forever tragedy

In flowers    she would have been three (he slept
 one as the sunflower you’ll find her
 nestled in the creaking darkness of seeds
 hinges of shadows' cloud dust or more and
 two an orchid of violet fervor  (his face, framed in the hills and wet grasses)
    skin the flavor of honey blood  find shade
    in the spiraling      darkness  behold
 her beauty is the legend of
   Pagans the blood they heaved as
   ballet grace and the drunken love
          water for
                     purity  she is her
 own legend as calm
      seaborn typhoon
        or cool summer grass
        midnight        you’ll find
   three flowers
       and as she falls in love the tide shivers
and  her  love
   shepherd of men  but only as he
  reminds us of our mortality
she passed above
  his flock  for years
and finally
jammed him to Paradise        begging forever
                        (her father smiled)
his life  her breath
in  a  box
   a life no less
a life of love
and grasshopper legs

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