Monday, December 25, 2017

Soliloquy for Macbeth

Soliloquy for Macbeth

Blue pig basking in
the sun it brought to mind.
See lapis is at work
thought mixed with mud,
horses not yet through the gate.

Any moment might be a different 
gate. Game. Origami on its way
out of our hands. The swan
that dares to actually fly away

from the secretly missing blueprints
for body’s careful analogy.
Heccats false measures ride

the palace in which the Image lives
disguised as a palace. Clavis.

Dagger. The Handle toward my Hand.


Thursday, December 14, 2017

“Mazurka”

“Mazurka”

Wooden cattle
in the gutter,

vivid swing of song
as image up the high hill

its obvious branches
animals flinch as they carry past

swing with into sight
sound flinches
to be seen
where sound goes

wend through this clunky sleep, to silence
vivid indistinction in distinctions, follow

I’m going to stay awake until it snows.

Snows that hold the Lady’s lake
the sword she holds the really real
held aloft a sword upon the ear’s eyes
a stone before the eye’s ears
her arm around me

to lead me to you.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Friday, December 1, 2017

Polonaise (1,2)

Polonaise

A branch raised
in both hands.

Hawthorn. Flowers
fill your lover’s room.
Skin mixed with its musk.

So the gods enter. Laughter.
Skin’s deceptive porous comfort 
through which they rush

to their 7th, Helios
laughter itself.
You and the book share

mud and mud hot mysteries whose confused roots
seven jeweled reins rule deep into pre-existence.

Chaos reined in by planetary whips. Any order makes use of
impoverished purities of form that decay, decay by law
but love preserves each as the bark splits and the trees
are ripped away.

Adore me adore me adore me
images of you dear reader
left in me by the devil’s passage.

Hawthorne. Laughter. Solar
branches track through mind’s breath

comes back to itself
by the help of elves
fixed to its musk.

Attention breaks
the voice fades
into a native silence.

These are the two suns mud and mud where the hawthorn
in potentia live and where their images dazzle

her admired whips pre-organize the tracks
fleshed musk thrills the doom of my room


Polonaise 2

Heart’s masonic
pillar burial

the life after death walks
along the triangle’s edge
three abysses

three hands. Close.
Actual stars hold
the ceremonial sword.

Ghosts
sword thinly out
from the choked closeness.

Ceremonial honey
green whispers through
within the ear
and robes flow out

past the hand past wind past street past heart
robes flow from the immersion, free.

Breath catches on the heart’s white veins
of whip-scars and tough bleary webs
so the reins of the planets come to mind
borrowed from their hollow cards

through hieratic gloom
learn to love night’s letters

emerge alive again
this one truth
there is to offer, hold
an actual hand
into horizon’s
bind, the heart’s

invisible pages concealed in the aether turn bats in the darkness 
turn the sound of wings bat me down into sleep
to deliver little by little the brave witchy metal of noon.





Saturday, November 25, 2017

11.22.--


A voice says
tie your shoes,
forget the sea

return and turn
what poem does,
remember its feet wet.

The earthly river
round above:
friends know,

memory refuses
itself, swims
still wise through 

the city, the other.
In the other,
a thought of you

Gnostics called
Predestination,
the heavenly form

radical as birthdays
the waves return to its feet
the glad wet thought of you.

***

Washed ashore,
rose cross
sisterhood of nymph’s blood

generations complicate
until the black crow,
clear water again

so the Image wonders
at our rash intrusion
elaborated in the middle of things

lift stones
lift words, shy ogres:
work for her

bring her
her again,
wisdom’s shuffle.

Korybants dance around
the Great Chorus of the sun
she shields herself with

Cybele, under words
birds dress themselves
reassembling her here

as if a thing generable!
Adam’s foolish need for cause
she tells all in her gospel

you have only to find it
go in as she shuts her eyes
past the fin-de-ciel police

Humbaba and the scorpion androgyne
kill them for practice
to feel your hand behind the mind

grasp the holy herb by its roots
the book light in my
fourth hand crosses

easily over the crown
of its organs, the waters
I wring it over. The Star

pours souls,
from her Pythagorean vase.
The oral law’s

song rises
for the architect
of the self

through written law;
this thought you brought to me
just by waiting for the tide.

The moon and his friends
energic trees walk through
the trees of our forest,

lark in limitation:
light is a name and
another light replies.

***

Your mother and I weary slivers
strive to be wet again
and what wet thinks of
curve of absolute margin.

Where lines peck
at the slow dirt of dawn
dawn that red sea
a black and white bull

walk straight through.
Keep a copy of this image
when you circumambulate the isle.
Now confuse this with a city

voices in the tent of the skin
busy with exhalation
of our science our art rigged
to star’s exhalations of feeling

hand on the red hip of dawn
her rivers pin me to
tell me what four thinks of.

Forms swarm down the hill.

Friday, November 17, 2017

Stagefort Park


Stagefort Park

i.1
Some greeny mint julep shoals
where the rose is hidden, bidden
like I said to excuse its pun.
roof your boat like the sea does.
In the snug alphabetic house
not even wind left between you and the wind.
A duck somehow still against the tide.

2.
Is is the other side, where the other
has become itself– the door shuts
out of existence. Nephesh plays among
the gods and comes back to us when it
wishes; presence is always plural, to ravel out
the back of things, joyful irrational
Minoans come vault over the bull’s horns.
Take responsibility. Speak forth eels.

ii.
Quiescent Aleph.
Hands fragile enough
to hold a syllable
by the wings.

The demand of beauty: all teeth
holding together the body and its goals
gods for silence.

A word in the mouth
is a step into the mirror. 
This I call a tree.

These animals in its branches
if there are animals-

Susan, the horse that belongs to the girl. 
Perched quiet as breath on the branches of speech.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

poem from 11.6

You are not real, said a voice.
The phantoms flee
gibbering like ghosts.

Tinkerbell Naassene priestess,
ghosts flock across her manifest hand
that holds my hand

to her sloping Ganges
that boils them from me.
Forms from my sister’s spell.

That washes form
through to else.
Hand, yes, 
in the heavenly river

clutching a rung
clutching itself

and then the next.

Monday, November 6, 2017

poem

Watch the muons with me
crash through the pyramid
of the heart

with the same amount of spin as matter
these same shadows
with their powerful girls' voices.

What drifts through
the forms of matter’s mind
drifts through the heart as names

or whatever comes after that
wrapped in luminous mists
low across the water
in order to meet the sun.