tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605557949056702112011-04-21T15:10:35.772-07:00A set of poems about too many things. Most written in the early 1990's. Thanks to Long Island Poetry Collective and, of course, fairsCaPe for helpful criticism.CCCCppppCCppphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11955573082424585316noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560555794905670211.post-6504475460110042632007-07-09T21:02:00.000-07:002007-07-09T21:04:42.493-07:00Mary could adopt you, my friend<br />and then you'd regain your lustre,<br />viceroy in some province of heaven,<br />genuine fount of clear light.<br />But would she keep you from me?<br /><br />She is not so jealous,<br />she leaves us her hares and bluebirds<br />and sends a prince to die each year.<br />Would that be you?<br />Husk of a cloud on quickened earth<br />until Magdalene anoints.<br /><br />But you are always alert<br />to the other window on the cave of heaven<br />besides the sky, its mouth.<br />Your basket is full of its signs.<br />Your bona fides stand as straight as anyone's.<br /><br />Every month spring tides overflow.<br />Vines and date palms fully ripened,<br />would feed you possibilities,<br />restore your bones like new antlers.<br /><br />You would sleep roofless above the rain,<br />wake to help unseen children<br />lost in the forest where stars grow<br />bigger than revenge.<br /><br />When your dawn comes, I will sing<br />like the birds that greet the morning<br />as you measure the moon-stairs,<br />remember:&nbsp;&nbsp;I remain below, green with love<br />a shallot sprung through hard pavement.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3560555794905670211-650447546011004263?l=hotmascara.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>CCCCppppCCppphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11955573082424585316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560555794905670211.post-15937044289845393382007-07-09T20:57:00.000-07:002007-07-09T21:02:07.352-07:00Rather than post these in order, I'll post poems for which the latest revision is easy to determine. And which don't obviously need work. Posting in order would mean that they would be read in blocks of reverse order, anyway.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3560555794905670211-1593704428984539338?l=hotmascara.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>CCCCppppCCppphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11955573082424585316noreply@blogger.com0