nice one - first of many I'll warrant
On 4/19/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I will soon be able to call myself a published writer; my poem
> "herald" is going to appear in the next issue of Fuselit
> (www.fuselit.co.uk), a uk-based magazine. I'd sent one poem to the
> editor previously, but after discussion we decided it didn't fit the
> issue's theme (each issue is based on a catalyst-word); this was
> written with a deal more of vision & intent than the previous piece.
> so here's a peek at my first ever published poem. the themeword of the
> issue is NUDE.
>
> HERALD
>
> a skeletal birch is the spirit of patience
> when a city wind terrorises it
> into a deviltree: a support pillar of the moon
> made a gallows for plastic bags¯
>
> it has to wait till summer
> for its pact with the bay's seaweed vault
> of palettes to save its branches from whips,
> and its nude roots & limbs
> from homicide¯
> it has to wait to be herald
> to the flower of the sun.
>
> now painting this halt:
> a transforming gunshot star
> soothes the skyline to tigerlily,
> bids goodnight the peering city
> with a silent burn of colour:
>
> my lover's outstretched leg glowed
> & she laughed¯the plastic bags glowed
> like hell's prototype rainbow & laughed,
> blowing about like candles.
>
> KS
>
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