Grassy,
An interesting poem. Not sure about "removing quick skin to be grafted". How
about "removing skin for a graft"? "None" is short for "not one" in 3/2. So
should be "was acknowledged" later in the same line. DK if you care.
I like the last stanza particularly. Very casual.
BW
Colin
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 2:23 AM
Subject: New sub: Tarocchi
> Tarocchi
>
> He made a tarot
> in elaborate collage,
> all the images cut out with a craftknife
> from glossy pages -
> articles, advertisements,
> announcements -
>
> precise as a surgeon
> removing quick skin to be grafted.
> None of the images were acknowledged
> but they niggled at your sight.
>
> Overhead a comet curled its tail
> around the world once, twice,
> growling and glowering
> like a wounded dragon.
>
> The sky bled and trumpets
> ranged on the heights
> blew war's clarion.
> The emperor's horses
> arched their throats.
>
> All this was shown on the cards:
> the crowds that shuffle through
> the streets, flat as paper,
> great cats that roam the hinterland
> and feast on nomads,
> jackals that fight over the remnants,
> snarl to snout.
>
> cut the deck
> deal me a future
> before I slip into my box
> forever
>
> grasshopper
>
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