Barrel Magic


Canto XI

Canto XI

 

 

the god breathes on the chariot

            and the axle turns like the god’s spine

upon itself until the wheel

 

            rides the earth spinning then revolving

over and upon itself and breaks

            so that races can demob

 

divinity buried with the chariot’s wheel

            cohorts run over now by knights

mounted on winged horses

 

            breathing again within campaigns in the East

Dasius’ namesake buried by the Danube

            progenitor entombed in maybe Vukovar

 

or Dalj--no script bears witness yet a diploma

            graved in bronze carries some

of Nero’s breath even into Parthia  [into Illyricum]

 

            Pannonian reinforcements sent to Syria

perhaps destroying

            the temples throughout time

 

Dušanic sd/ the cavalry was more useful

            in most campaigns

than the auxiliary infantry

 

            gravity leaks into the fifth dimension

Nima sd/                      Age of Aquarius

            not to incriminate myself

 

"Scaling up to 512 CPU's is pretty damn studly," sd/ Torvalds.

            "Putting twenty of them in a cluster and making them

programmable as a single machine is pretty hot."

 

            I wish we could

possibly be together            the sweet fragrance of your

            clothes

 

not to king my last row

            barley hops and yeast

alios age incitatos

 

            alios age rabidos

Mr. Cartier-Bresson sd/ “For me, the passion

            is to look, to look, to look.”

 

furniture equipment and leasehold improvements are carried

            at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization

depreciation of furniture and equipment is provided over

 

            the estimated lives of the respective assets

on a straight-line basis amortization of leasehold improvements

            is provided over the lesser of the estimated useful life

 

of the improvement or the life of the lease on a straight-line

            basis no assets were removed in 2003 or 2002

now your husband sleeps content

 

            come out and greet his friends

gathered outside your windows

            come out and listen to our cheers

 

come out and lift your bodice

            so we can know the joys of marriage

without having to commit to its pain

 

            come out and sing your wedding song

come out and drum on the balcony’s spine

            drum on the balcony’s floor

 

come out with painted hair with curled hair

            with close clothes

dripping from joy in the marriage bed

 

            come out to greet your husband’s

friends’ wives whose joy overpowers

            even the grocer’s most fragrant cheeses

 

come out to cheer the wives who have

            not seen their husbands at night

lo these many years

 

            come out and shine come and dine

on your neighbors’ spleen for they thought

            you would never encourage him

 

never trap him never rope his scrawny

            limbs into the hammock of Hymen’s joy

boathouse on that same

 

            barnstorm        wearing a white

constellate            with the foreign instrumentation

            had been having            dry            the barman drew

 

IBS sd/ “I was, one might say, a solipsist

            long before I ever heard of the word.”

or if I don’t piss in the dough            I will never rise

 

            a bright flash of

light strikes my body fills it

            with makeup

 

if you don’t get out of dumbarton oaks

            it will swallow you alive

as russia swallowed poland

 

            only to have to regurgitate it whole

two centuries later                  Zguto give back what

            you have taken from me and I will

 

release you from dumbarton oaks

            you have my heart snared in your deep

black hair the curls enrapturing me

 

            with night the curls scented with your

pungent black berry rizzle how I long for release

            from spice made of black hair            bonds

 

even the Messiah’s hair could not

            entangle me as yours does if you

let me go I will allow you to pass

 

            even Satan’s tresses could not wrap

me as tightly as yours if you let me

            go you may marry the Mineola Mensch

 

but before I pass I set the stones

            to cover my retreat  do not move

them as my body’s rest deserves

 

            care as only these stones can provide

even love even love

            heavy in their protectiveness

 

weight given and weight taken tinier

            stones to fill the gaps and large ones

that roll untended to their places

 

            like disobedient malcontents shaped

finally by their proportions rather than

            their statures             sink them and they

 

rebound as the ground heaves from frost

            raise them and they fall from stones

unraveling their courses

 

            pebbles know nothing those boulders

forget they keep the secrets of the universe

            as well as my secrets engraved

 

with my bones so that only a soothsayer

            can toss my finger joints to discover

the truth so long unfleshed

 

            heaven must be hades

in the endless sea of

            memories

 

Isamu Noguchi

Thoughts on Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

One
Two
Three
Four
Five

Pitas.com!

cantos

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X

happy shiny poems

archives

Alka Seltzer Please!
Amelie
Asa Nisi Masa
Attis
Big Oops
Chuckle!
Club of Man
Craw
Drown Yourself in Garcia Lorca
Eros
Finney Ordained
Fish
Grace
Green
Looking Glass
Magnolias
Make It Real
Many Minds
May 2003
Mitochondria
Nautilus
Raw Information
Somme
Spellbound
Surfing with Philip
Thanatos
The best job Philip...
Triple Chocolate Cake
Winter Sounds
Time Travel Channel
Woodies

$ BLOGSHARES $

sites

atomFILMS
BloggerCon
Book of Joe
Jarret Keene
rainy monday in reykjavík
Science Blog
scripting news
Snooze Button Dreams
Thoughts Args Rants
truth out
Udell
the_velvet_rut
Waypath
wil wheaton dot net

< ? PoetsUnite # >

Site Meter

Google
Search WWW Search pitas.com