I can't read the words
cherry blossom
without thinking of
boot polish!
yours
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:01 AM
Subject: [THE-WORKS] Tobacco Road, part two
> Tobacco Road
> ---------------
>
> somewhere
> down Tobacco Road
> Mona's jiving
> with the moon
>
> please don't drop
> that chouzubachi
> on my toe
>
> in the main
> the haikai spirit
> is opposed
> to artifice
>
> her cleavage
> rather deeper
> than his glass
>
> round the town
> a sticky plum bun
> a pig
> led off to market
>
> so clever
> they've forgotten
> how to pray
>
> * * *
>
> autumn wind
> oh autumn wind
> a withered sapling
> fades to grey
>
> the coffee table
> weighted down
> with chrome
>
> a piton
> hammered through the ice
> to fix
> a yard of sky
>
> a silence
> that is nothing more
> than silence
> how softly
>
> the mosquito treads
> how suddenly
> the virus
>
> a modern means
> to win the war
> on waste
>
> oh cherry blossom
> cherry blossom
> cherry cherry
> blossom
>
> and so
> the old victrola
> starts to play
>
> * * *
>
>
> all comment and crits gratefully etcered, john e c
>
>
|